Description

Circa 1831. 2-storey, 3-bay symmetrical neo-Greek house set back from road; mirror image to No 186. Polished ashlar facade; architraved openings; advanced central bay; recessed ashlar quoins. Continuous base and string course; blocking course raised at centre. Corniced first floor windows; pedimented central window. Ionic doorcase at ground.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: stone steps up to central doorcase; fluted Ionic columns to left and right; blank architrave, frieze and cornice above. Timber panelled door; replacement plate glass fanlight. Pedimented single window with flanking decorative consoles to central bay at 1st floor. Single windows to both floors in bays to outer left and right. Decorative cast-iron window guards to 1st floor windows.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: coursed rubble sandstone; irregularly disposed single openings. Stone stair from ground floor to basement.

4-pane timber sash and case windows in all bays to W elevation. Timber sash and case windows to rear. Piended grey slate roof; ashlar wallhead stacks with linked octagonal flues. Single-storey sandstone segmental arches flank main block at first floor (left pend blocked).

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

COACH HOUSE: random rubble single storey with hay loft set back from main house (SW); mirrors that in adjacent No 186. Long and short rubble quoins; single opening in attic.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: coped rubble wall to Newhaven Road. Ashlar gatepiers flank driveway; projecting cornices and base course; recessed panels; square caps; ironwork in place. Coped random rubble wall to N and S boundaries. Extensive garden to rear.

Statement of Interest

No 184 and the adjacent No 186 were built and lived in by the Schultz brothers (both whaling captains) whose wish it was that the two buildings be exactly the same. Once part of the Williamfield Estate (subsequently developed as the Dudley Estate). The 1855 Ordnance Survey map refers to both houses as forming "Ramsay Place".

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17796300

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas