Description

Later 19th century, 2-storey and attic, 6-bay mirrored double villa, now converted to hotel accommodation, with gothic and Baronial details. U-plan main block with projecting entrance porches at end elevations. Bull-faced, squared and snecked granite with yellow sandstone dressings. Base course, moulded eaves cornice.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: outer bays, mirrored 2-storey, single bay entrance porch, with 2-bay loggia at ground of columns on tall bases, supporting heavy lintel carved with blind quatrefoils. Gabled dormerhead with ball finial at 1st floor, breaking eaves, window to each floor of gabled return elevations. Bay 2 and 5, mirrored advanced gables, each containing 2-storey canted window with dividing string course and parapet carved with quatrefoils (as above). Bipartite window to attic with raised margin, carved decoration above incorporating shield. Bays at centre with bipartite windows at ground and 1st floor. Balcony bridging centre at 1st floor, carved quatrefoils to parapet, supported on 3 columns (as entrance loggias). Gabled dormers with finials breaking eaves at 2nd floor. Plate glass timber sash and case windows and some modern glazing in matching pattern. Grey slates to roofs of main block, dormers and porches. Square cast-iron downpipes with profiled gutters at eaves. Single-flue stacks at ridge junctions. 4-flue apex stacks to end gables, 10-flue main stack at central dividing wall, all with fluting to upper halves. Triangular skew copes to gables and dormers, stepped at centre point, ball finials at apex of W gables.

Statement of Interest

A good quality pair of buildings in a prominent seafront position.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17773667

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)