Description

George A Lyle, 1896 stables and offices, skilfully converted to dwelling house, Alexander Allan Foote, 1930. Single storey with attic, L-plan with service wing to E. Harled brick with red sandstone ashlar dressings and mock-timber framing. Base course; long and short ashlar quoins; overhanging gables.

N ELEVATION: canted flat-roofed ashlar porch with projecting timber gable and windows to left and right at re-entrant; cast mythological beasts attached to gablehead; boarded door with carved wooden lions flanking blank wall flanking to right. Small window in gablehead of return to wing flanking left; flat-roofed garage adjoining to left.

W ELEVATION: 2 single windows with raised ashlar surrounds at ground floor to left of porch; strip of 6 dormer windows (4 angled) with M-piend-roofed dormerheads above. Single windows at ground floor and gablehead of return to wing flanking porch to right.

E ELEVATION: tripartite and single windows at ground floor of service wing; secondary entrance at return to right; bipartite window at ground floor of main house; garage to outer right.

S (GARDEN) ELEVATION: recessed single storey piend-roofed service wing with bipartite window to outer right. Advanced single storey bay to inner right (planned as a loggia in 1930) with quadripartite window and exposed brick frame on ashlar base; tripartite secondary entrance to return to main house. Central ashlar bay with splayed angles; bipartite and 2 single windows; 2-leaf door; single windows to splays; strip of 7 dormer windows (4 angled) above with double piend-roofed dormerheads.

Modern external flue to height of chimney.

Leaded-latticed glazing pattern to casement and sash and case windows; small-pane windows to service wing. Grey-green slate jerkin-headed roof; clay ridge tiles and finials; 4 scroll-shouldered and corniced ashlar stacks. (harled bands to stacks to S elevation); moulded eaves guttering; tall moulded cans.

INTERIOR: turned balustrades with carved panels; smoking room with vaulted plaster ceiling and wainscot panelling incorporating (earlier) elaborately carved panels and chimneypiece.

BOUNDARY WALL: high rubble wall to Lovers' Loan.

Statement of Interest

See separate listings for 38 Dick Place lodge and mansionhouse. The stable block and offices of F T Pilkington's Grange House (1864-70) were built for George Boyd Thornton, the India Rubber manufacturer, in 1896. Alexander a foote, who had divided the mansion into 2 houses in 1929, carried out the luxurious conversion of the stables for the solicitor thomas H williamson in 1930..

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17797131

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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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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas