Description

F T Pilkington, 1872. 2-storey, 3-bay with recessed 4th bay near rectangular-plan villa on steeply sloping site. Coursed stugged cream ashlar with contrasting grey polished dressings. Base course with contrasting grey buttresses and clasping buttresses to N, dividing cornice, partly machicolated; architraved windows; windows segmental-arched at ground floor and shouldered and pedimented at 1st floor, except in bay to outer left;contrasting long and short quoins.

N ENTRANCE elevation: steps up to round-arched architraved doorway in 2nd bay; door with shouldered panels; plate glass fanlight; single window above and in 3rd and 4th bays. Advanced gabled bay with rounded angles to outer left, corbelled to square at 1st floor; 2 single windows at ground; blinded balustrade forming apron to segmental-arched recess with bipartite window inset at 1st floor. Segmental-headed panel set in gablehead.

S (GARDEN) elevation: 3-storey, 3-bay. Full height canted window in gabled bay to outer right; doorway added to central light. Single windows inbay to outer left and at ground and 1st floor of central bay; round-arched stairwindow at 2nd floor.

W elevation: M-gabled; single windows at ground and 1st floor to centre.E elevation: largely blank.

Plate sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; heavily coped shouldered wallhead (1 to E) and gablehead (2 to W) sacks; coped gables; thistle finial to N gable.

INTERIOR: encaustic tiled vestibule; glazed tripartite vestibule door;timber handrail and decorative cast-iron balusters; ornate plaster cornices, brackets and roses.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low saddleback wall to street; high rubble walls adjoining house to outer left and right; shouldered pedestrian gateway to outer left; stugged ashlar gatepier with ball finial cap to outer right.

STABLE BLOCK: former stables recessed to outer right by gateway with pitched roof, wallhead stack, and hayloft breaking eaves, now converted togarage use; small contemporary lean-to to rear.

Statement of Interest

Built, along with No 129, for Alexander McLaurin Monteith. Drawings for one of these houses were exhibited at the RSA in 1872. Pilkington's use of quirkly "Rogue Gothic" details in these two houses is relatively restrained in comparison to his other work in the area at No 52 (now demolished), Nos 48-50, and No 38 Dick Place.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17804156

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)