Description

Circa 1870. 2-storey, 3-bay villa with single storey service wing adjoining. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings; lightly stugged coursed ashlar to S elevation. Base course; bracketted cornice; roll-moulded windows shouldered at ground and segmental-arched at 1st floor; raised long and short quoins.

S ENTRANCE elevation: central tripartite doorpiece; panelled pilasters; carved consoles and corniced canopy; panelled door; tripartite fanlights with shouldered lintels (keystone to central light). Single window at 1st floor above. Full-height canted windows with dividing cornices in bays to outer left and right. Service wing recessed to outer right; bipartite shouldered window at ground; single window above with bracketted cill and breaking eaves in segmental-arched formerhead.

E ELEVATION: advanced service wing with secondary entrance, small single windows and large bipartite window at ground; segmental-headed dormer above. Tripartite stairwindow at 1st floor with margin panes.

W ELEVATION: small glass lean-to at ground; segmental-arched window at 1st floor.

N REAR elevation: single windows in bays to centre and outer left. Single window at ground to outer right; bipartite window above at 1st floor. Service wing advanced and adjoining to outer left with 2 single windows at ground and segmental-headed dormer above. Plate glass sash and case windows. Grey slate piended roof; 4 shouldered and corniced stacks; moulded octagonal cans; moulded eaves guttering.

INTERIOR: not seen 1991.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low coped boundary wall to street with replacement railings; coped ashlar gatepiers with chamfered angles; original cast-iron railings to mutual wall with No 2 Oswald Road (see separate listing); high coped rubble mutual walls elsewhere. Grey slate pitched roof garage (earlier 20th century) with mock-timber frame gables and timber bargeboards. Brick potting shed to N; timber eaves, bargeboards and finials; fishscale roof; small stack with moulded can.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17805322

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)