Description

Kinnear and Peddie, 1893. 2-storey and attic house. Fine texture harl with red sandstone ashlar dressings.

N ELEVATION: pedimented porch with corniced doorway and panelled door off-centre to left, tripartite flanking to right. 3 semi-circular and waved pediments breaking eaves at 1st floor. Projecting outer bays with 6-lights at ground; jettied 5-lights above with timber brackets. 2 swept-roofed 2-light dormers at centre.

S ELEVATION: complex elevation with variety of bay treatment; irregular windows, including large stair window.

E ELEVATION: adjoined by service court with projecting outbuilding to left and walls recently reduced to right. Gateway to E.

W ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to left with advanced penticed roof tripartite window at ground; attic window. Canted window in re-entrant angle to right with 3-lights and half-piended roof. Pedimented 1st floor window to right.

Variety of glazing patterns. Plate glass sash windows with some diamond paned upper panels, casements and stair window. Lead-paned oriel to S. Small-pane casements to S dormers. Crowstepped gables. Harled stacks with moulded copings. Red plain tiles and tile-hanging to dormers. brass lion weathervane to W gable.

INTERIOR: period features retained.

WALLED GARDEN: rectangular plan, brick-walled garden to SW of house.

GLASSHOUSE: to N of walled garden, contemporary with house; MacKenzie and Moncur. Brick base, E-plan glasshouse with decorative wrought-iron finials. Cast and wrought-iron interior details; cogged window mechanisms.

Terraced garden to N with stone steps and urn finials.

QUADRANT AND BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rubble quadrant walls to N gateway with cone finials to drum-piers. Brick boundary wall, stepping down site.

Statement of Interest

Commissioned for Thomas Esson, Lawyer. The grounds were landscaped and the precipitous site redesigned for the foundations. An army of gardeners tended the area and fine topiary. A lodge to the SW on the Grange Road, and garages to SE were built to complement the house.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17791416

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair