Description

1828. Single storey symmetrical 3-bay rectangular-plan villa with basement and single storey wings to basement. Cream painted sandstone ashlar. Base course; cill course; cornice; blocking course, raised at centre; architraved windows.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: steps up to doorcase supported by Greek Doric columns with pilasters behind; moulded band, cornice and blocking course, raised at centre, to entablature; timber panelled door with glazed fanlight; carved plaque to blocking course; single windows to flanking bays with blind balustrades below cill course.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof.

4 octagonal corniced stacks with corniced cans. Decorative wrought-iron balusters and handrail flanking steps to entrance doorcase.

INTERIOR: not seen (1996).

BOUNDARY WALLS: Coped ashlar boundary walls and gatepiers to street. Recent wrought-iron railings to boundary walls. Decorative wrought iron pedestrian gate flanked by painted pilastered entrance with cornice and blocking course, raised at centre.

Statement of Interest

Home of the pioneer photographer David Octavius Hill for the last years of his life.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17795055

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)