Description

"David Hamilton architect 1838" inscribed over door.
2-storey modest-scale country house now incorporated
within city. Sub-divided: club at ground floor, domestic
flat above. In the individual castellated gothic style
developed by Hamilton, sash windows with horizontal
glazing, pointed windows also have simple tracery;
prominent cornice moulding continued along skews and
stepped over gables, kneelers and dormer heads; apex
finials, prominent stacks with grouped square flues. Low
courtyard block at E. Mainly ashlar, lesser elevations
coursed rubble; slate roofs. S (entrance) elevation has
advanced gable right with painted hood-moulded entrance
to groin-vaulted recessed open porch, entrance door
within; stone-balconied and hood-moulded window above
entrance; crenellated canted ground floor window left and
2 1st floor windows. W elevation repeats detailing but
advanced gable at right is castellated; octagonal angle
shafts all carried upwards and corbelled out as thin,
residual bartizans. Modern lavatory outshot on N wall.
Courtyard block now (1988) serves as Parks Department
store; 2 single storey ranges, in L-plan, N range linked
to house, E range with loft contained below eaves and
with coach-house; courtyard closed to S by high screen
wall with blind tall loops flanking moulded large
carriage arch with cornice moulding stepped over, gable
of E range set forward at right.
Interior of house retains much original ornament
including decorative cornice plasterwork and marble
chimney pieces; vestibule walls have 2 inset painted
scenes and 2 classically-robed busts.

Statement of Interest

Originally Sighthill House.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17811006

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014