Description

Early 19th century with later additions. 3-storey 4-bay blockish villa (now hote) with additional 2-storey entrance bay. Cream sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings.

E ELEVATION: 3-storey 3-bay section at centre; single windows to all floors of left bay; centre and right bays with large 2-storey canted window; ashlar with chamfered reveals, cornice and blocking course, bipartite windows to centre; single windows to 2nd floor. To outer left, recessed 2-storey flat-roofed stugged ashlar porch, with polished dressings; pilastered and corniced doorcase with 2-leaf panelled door and 2-pane fanlight; flanked by narrow 6-vertical-pane windows; tall single window above flanked by identical narrow windows; cornice. To outer right, recessed bay with windows to each floor; brick and rubble single storey piend-roofed addition beyond.

S ELEVATION: to left, projecting 2-storey rubble side wall of entrance porch, with window to left at ground; above and to right, blank harled wall of central block, with wallhead stack.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-storey 4-bay harled block with windows to all floors of each bay; inner right bay with full-height projecting piend-roofed stair tower (later closet tower in re-entrant angle to left). To right blank 2-storey bay of porch; to left, single storey and attic piend-roofed rubble addition with attached brick shed beyond.

N ELEVATION: blank rubble wall with wallhead stack; at ground, brick and rubble single storey addition with segmental-headed box dormer (now derelict).

12-pane timber sash and case windows (8-pane to canted window, lying pane to porch and stair tower). Piended roof; grey slates; harled stacks. INTERIOR: tiled floor to entrance hall; glazed doors leading to elegant stair.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: rubble boundary wall with semicircular coping to Friarsgate; culvert to left of entrance. Square droved ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps in lane to N of property.

Statement of Interest

There is an old stone drinking trough to the rear of the building dated 1809.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56635845

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)