Description

Later 19th century. 2-storey, near rectangular-plan villa. Squared and snecked cream sandstone with lightly stugged ashlar dressings. Base course; dividing band course; bargeboards; overhanging timber eaves; chamfered reveals.

E KILGRASTON ROAD elevation: 3-bay. Enclosed gabled porch built forward into boundary wall in central bay; roll-moulded basket-arched doorway; shouldered surround; dentilled corbels to dentilled cornice; heraldic panel set in pediment with gablet skewputts; panelled door; glazed panels to returns with decorative friezes; terracotta ridge tiles; window at 1stfloor. Timber bipartite oriel at 1st floor in 3rd bay; single lights to returns; panelled surrounds; decorative bargeboard. Advanced gabled bay to outer left; conservatory (see below) adjoining at ground; cipher panel set below corbelled chimneybreast.

S BLACKFORD ROAD elevation: 2-storey canted window swept to square at gablehead in bay to outer right. Bipartite windows in bay to outer left; 1st floor window breaking eaves in gablet. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; timber gabletted dormer to N, corniced gablehead stacks to N, E and W moulded eaves guttering.

INTERIOR: not seen 1991.

CONSERVATORY: adjoining house to E; timber and glass; coloured and painted glass to S gablehead; thistle ridging; decorative iron finials; leaded glass overdoor with painted figure in roundel.

PEDESTRIAN GATEWAY AND BOUNDARY WALLS: pedimented pedestrian gateway; high coped boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

Listed for interest of porch and conservatory on prominent site.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17804567

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings