Description

J Hall of Galashiels, 1898. Large symmetrical 2-storey 3-bay double villa. Whinstone with cream sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course; deep concave ashlar eaves, half-timbered gableheads.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: broad centre bay; 3-bay arcaded timber porch of turned and blocked columns, modillioned cornice, tiled piended roof; pair of 2-leaf panelled doors with leaded rectangular fanlights to outer bays, pair of narrow windows at centre. At 1st floor pair of bipartite windows with moulded cill between porch roof and cornice; small gablehead above. Flanking bays with 2-storey piend-roofed canted

windows breaking through eaves.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: at centre, windows to both floors; wallhead stack with small gablehead braceted over. Lower single storey and attic projecting service range set back to N with back door.

N ELEVATION: each house of 2 bays displaced to right with windows to both floors; projecting service range at centre with piended gable and windows to both floors.

Timber sash and case plate glass windows; multi-pane sashes at 1st floor under gables. Grey slates; terracotta ridge tiles and finials; moulded cast-iron eaves gutters.

BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble boundary walls with saddleback ashlar coping to front; brick dividing walls with pipe coping.

Statement of Interest

Built for Miss Helen W Peden, and originally known as Wemyss Villa. An interesting composition unifying the pair of houses with a flavour of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Venbrae, to the E, has a pair of whale bones as an arch in the garden.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56645076

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