Description

Circa 1900. Substantial 2-storey and attic flatted villa on sloping corner site with mock half-timber details. Red sandstone, coursed and squared bull-faced rubble with polished ashlar dressings, render to rear and side. Base course; chamfered reveals to doorways; overhanging eaves with exposed rafters; plain bargeboards; ashlar mullions and transoms.

SW (BROOMBERRY DRIVE) ELEVATION: 5-bay; asymmetrical. 2-storey canted window to centre bay with decorative cast-iron parapet as balcony to gabled dormer with half-timbered gablehead and quasi-Venetian window. Bay to right, doorway with 2-leaf panelled door and stained glass

fanlight, small stained glass window flanking; transomed tripartite

window with bracketted cill above. Advanced rectangular bay to outer right with tripartite windows and sidelights breaking eaves in half-timbered finialled gablehead. Bays to left with regular fenestration, at ground floor corniced, bipartite to outer left.

SE (JOHN STREET): 3-bay on slope; round-arched keystoned and hood-moulded doorway to centre with panelled door and plate glass fanlight; window above. Outer bays with 2-storey canted windows. Later rectangular dormer.

NW ELEVATION: 3-bay; rendered stair to 1st floor doorway to right, boarded door and narrow 2-pane fanlight; single and bipartite windows to left.

Timber sash and case windows, coloured multi-pane upper sashes, plate glass lower sashes. Piended slate roof with lead flashings and red tile ridge and finials; wallhead stacks to NW and NE. Decorative downpipe brackets.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56634668

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)