Description

1826-7. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan symmetrical plain classical villa with single-storey 2-bay wing to left and 2-storey single-bay wing to right; piended extension to rear. Polished sandstone ashlar, channelled at ground; coursed rubble to sides. String course to ground floor; dividing band course; cill course; cornice; blocking course; architraved windows to 1st floor.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced pedimented central bay; timber door with glass panels and plate glass fanlight above; doorpiece with engaged Ionic columns and block pediment with raised keystone; single window to 1st floor above with consoled cornice. Later 3-bay canted windows to flanking bays at ground; single windows to 1st floor above and to 1st floor of wing to right; voussoirs to round-arched recessed panels to wings at ground; timber door to right, square window to left, and shouldered opening to recessed bay to outer left.

2-pane timber sash and case windows; 4-pane to ground floor wing to left. Grey slate piended roof; wallhead stacks, corniced to left, coped to right; moulded cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped coursed rubble boundary walls to street, with boarded timber doors set in pedestrian gateways to outer left and right; mutual coped rubble boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

Built for John Walker 1826-27.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17794340

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Recommended Books

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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)