Description

Asymmetrical 2-storey Italianate picturesque villa with

companile at SE rising to 4-storeys. Original villa pre-1858

with extensive additions and alterations 1897-1900, 1897

Joseph Cowan, architect; single storey addition to W maids

quarters 1900, George Simpson; 2-storey additions to N and E

and remodelling of some windows. Stepped irregular T-plan

stugged painted ashlar walling with polished ashlar margins

and rusticated quoins.

S elevation 2-bay section with canted 2-storey window to

left; to right, at ground architraved, consoled, corniced

tripartite window, 2 architraved windows above. Elevation

stepped back to E with porch heightened to 2-storeys in 1900

to provide extra bathroom. Recessed timber panelled art

nouveau door. 4-storey campanile in re-entrant angle with

tall arched window to ground with consoled hood-mould. Narrow architraved lights to 1st and 2nd floors; 3rd floor, to all

elevations, paired round arched lights divided by columnar

mullion. Set back at extreme right, 2-storey 3-bay block with

tripartite windows, an addition of 1900.

N elevation partly remodelled in 1900; 5-light billiard room

window. To right advanced gabled bay with 3 arched windows

with continuous archivolt, divided by pilasters. To W single

storey addition of 1897; to 1st floor, canted oriel window.

Sash windows, plate glass glazing. Wide timber bracketted

eaves, elaborated at tower. Slate roofs; weathervane to

tower.

Stugged ashlar boundary wall with coping tall square corniced

ashlar gatepiers with chamfered arrises.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17810025

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)