Description

Circa 1890. Picturesque single storey and attic 3-bay L-plan suburban cottage with later additions. Whinstone with cream sandstone dressings. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafters; stop-chamfered arrises; ground floor windows hard under eaves.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled open timber porch at centre with foliate S-scrolled bargeboarding, bracing and finials; panelled door with 3-pane fanlight and bolection-moulded architrave. Gabled bay to left; flat-roofed 2-sided canted window at ground with ashlar mullions and transoms, pierced frieze and cornice; single window in gablehead. To right, window at ground; gabled timber dormer with vine leaf bargeboarding and finial. Modern dry-dash flat-roofed garage attached to outer right.

S (CROSS ROAD) ELEVATION: 2-bay. Each bay with window at ground and small gabled timber dormer; left dormer with bowed 12-pane window and bargeboarding of pierced scrollwork; right dormer with 2-pane canted window and columns, Gothic fretted bargeboarding; tall finials. Shouldered wallhead stack at centre.

N ELEVATION: blank gable to left obscured by garage at ground. Extension to right.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: gable to right with window in gablehead; at centre, lean-to back porch with gabled door; to left, extension at ground and large slate-hung box-dormer.

4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slates, fish-scaled to dormers; whinstone stacks with sandstone dressings and coping; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATE: low sandstone base for (removed) railings; decorative timber pedestrian gate to front door with chevron boarding and scrolled ironwork upper panel.

Statement of Interest

The timber detailing is outstanding for its quality and variety, and this house is marred only by the out-of-character additions.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17845186

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover