Description

Robert Reid Raeburn, 1875. 2-storey with basement to rear, 3-bay rectangular-plan villa; subdivided. Cleaned coursed cream sandstone with polished dressings. Base course; dividing band course; eaves cornice; architraved windows; stone balustrades to ground floor openings to N forming balconies to 1st floor windows; bracketted cills to S.

N entrance elevation: 3-bay. steps up to open porch; Ionic capitalled columns supporting entablature; architraved doorway panelled door; plate glass fanlight. Single storey canted window in bay to outer right; bipartite window at 1st floor. Advanced tripartite window at ground in bay to outer left; bipartite window at 1st floor.

S OSWALD ROAD elevation: 4-bay. Full-height bowed bay to outer left with 3 windows to each floor. Round-headed 3-light stairwindow in 2nd bay to centre; window at principal (ground) floor. Single windows in remaining bays to right. E elevation: 3-bay. Brick housing block (1985) adjoining toouter left. Single windows in remaining 2 bays. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof, swept at eaves; bipartite dormer to N; tripartitedormer to S; box dormers to E and W; corniced ridge stacks. Interior not seen 1991.

Gatepiers boundary walls and railings: 2 panelled and corniced ashlar gatepiers to Grange Loan (formerly a further 2 gatepiers formed a central gateway with pedestrian gateways flanking); 6 semi-circular coped and corniced piers supporting highly decorative cast-iron railings; 2-leaf decorative cast-iron gates; quadrant stone balustrade flanking steps up to entrance; terminal dies with decorative urns. High coped rubble boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

Formerly Grange Home School. The housing blocks adjoining and surrounding No 123 were built in 1985.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56632625

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