Description

John Henderson, 1853. 2-storey double villa, each 4-bay, with recessed side wings, with classical details and later additions. Cream sandstone, squared and snecked stugged rubble, polished ashlar dressings to front. Architraved windows, bracketted cills; cill band course at 1st floor, overhanging eaves.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: elevation mirrored about centre; gabled slightly advanced centre bays each with single window at ground floor in round-arched architraved panel: corniced window at 1st floor above. Bays to left and right of centre with single windows to ground and 1st floor. Recessed 2-storey (heightened later) entrance porch to outer bays with round-arched doorway, panelled door and semi-circular fanlight; single window at 1st floor above. Recessed side wings (originally single storey); to right with tripartite timber oriel with carved timber brackets and gable to S, oriel and lean-to conservatory to E; to left modern rubble-built forestair to secondary door on return of porch, tripartite timber oriel to side wing.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled bays to left and right of centre; single windows.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Slate piend and platform roof with metal flashings; wallhead stacks to W and NW, central transverse stack, corniced square cans. Moulded eaves gutters and gutterheads.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

BOUNDARY WALL: tall rubble wall with semi-circular coping to front, rear and sides with 2 pedestrian gateways with semi-circular pediments.

Statement of Interest

See Nos 2 and 4 for A similar villa design by Henderson. The Dean of Guild drawings for the 1890 alterations to No 9 show the original

houses as having single storey entrance porches and side wings. Similar alterations to No 7 are roughly contemporary (except for forestair).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56631392

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)