Description

1848, probably by Andrew Heiton & Son. Italianate 2-storey

ashlar asymmetrical with 3-storey entrance tower at NE and

service court at NW, finely detailed. Tower on NE front has

arched doorpiece with 1st floor balustraded balcony over on console-cantilever brackets, single arched windows top floor, broad-eaved low-pitched pyramid roof; SE front has

asymmetrical gable with canted bay bearing consoled 1st floor

balcony and cartouche over 1st floor window, S bay tripartite

with cartouche parapet; 2 canted bays SW front. NW wing has

consoled window and niche features. Broad-eaved slated roofs, square-shafted chimneys. Rubble garden walls with gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Historic interest: home of Effie Gray, wife first of John

Ruskin and then of Sir John Everett Millais.

Part of B group with items 5, 38, 105-109, 217-222.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Bowerswell, Bowerswell Road, Perth at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17850068

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)