Description

Fryers and Penman,circa 1903. 2-storey Edwardian villa in Scottish revival style incorporating Scots Baronial and 17th century Renaissance details. Bull-faced red sandstone with ashlar dressings. Cill courses; string course; ashlar mullioned windows with stop-chamfered arrises; cartouche decoration to 1st floor window aprons on N elevation. Crowstepped dormerheads to windows breaking eaves; full-height canted windows to N elevation with balustraded parapet with urn-like finials to dies.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: recessed bay to centre with doorway off-centre l eft, screened by full-width loggia/porch with tripartite basket-arched arcade, rope-moulded surround to arches, entrance to centre bay, ashlar balustrade on stone base between arches of flanking bays, balustraded parapet. Dormerheaded window off-centre left at 1st floor. Full-height canted windows of 1-2-1 lights to left. Full-height semi-octagonal bay canted out from right angle, regular fenestration.

E ELEVATION: full-height canted windows to centre, crenellated parapet, dormerheaded bipartite window above. Full-height canted windows of 1-2-1 lights to far right (metal fire escape stair abutting to centre and adjoining No 3).

Timber sash and case windows, mostly single pane to lower sashes, multi-pane upper, 12-panes to N elevation with Art Nouveau stained glass panes. Grey/green slate roof, coped red sandstone stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen.

GATEPIERS: red sandstone ashlar drum piers with pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

Part of Lansdowne Clinic with No 3 Whittingehame Gardens. Not in residential uase. Notes as No 1 Whittingehame Gardens. No 2 is the same design as Nos 4, 5 and 9.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56633959

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