Description

Dated 1868. 2-storey with basement to rear, 3-bay rectangular-plan villa with entrance bay to side raised from single storey porch (late 19th centrury); subdivided. Squated and snecked sandstone rubble; stugged and coursed ashlar to N and W elevations. Base course; dividing band; overhanging eaves, exposed rafters; raised shaped quoins; chamfered reveals.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2 carved stone griffins to either side of steps to entrance bay recessed to outer right; advanced and architraved round-arched doorpiece (No 36) with kwyaronw; engaged columns with carved capitals flanking; deep-set panelled door; placte glas fanlight; bracketed cornice above; advanced panel continued at 1st floor with carved name and date tablet set in shaped round-arched frame above small bracketed cornice; gablehead with circular blank tablet breaking eaves above. Single windows at ground and 1st floors on return to left; advanced and gabled central bay to main block, with tripartite corniced doorway (No 36A) altered from window at ground floor, bipartite stair windows at 1st floor, and blinded keystoned oculus above; single windows at ground and 1st floors in flanking bays.

E ELEVATION: single windows at ground and 1st floors.

W ELEVATION: 2-storey advanced entrance bay to outer left; 2 round-arched and keystoned windows at ground floor; single window above with gablehead breaking eaves. Secondary entrance with fanlight at principal floor to outer right; single window above.

S ELEVATION: 2-storey recessed bay with basement and loggia to outer left; single window at principal floor; single window with gablet above. Full-height canted window flanking main house to right. Advanced single window tat basement to outer right; advanced tripartite window at principal floor; bipartite window above.

Plate glass sash and case windows with small internal astragals to upper panels; 30-pane stair windows. Grey slate piended roof; lead flashing; eaves guttering; 2 shouldered and corniced wallhead stacks; moulded cans; stone finaial at main gable.

INTERIOR: wood panelled entrance hall with decorative plaster mouldings.

GATEPIERS AND WALLS: high coped rubble wall to street with coped pedestrian gateway to E; ashlar gatepiers with chamfered angles and cornices to W; high rubble boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

The porch appearts to have been raised not long after the completion of the main house - the quoins are continuous, but the coursing is not. There are no references to the alterations in the Dean of Guild records (which begin in about 1880). The origin of the carved griffins is not known.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17797030

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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