Description

Designed by John Allan, architect in Stirling, and built 1893. Large suburban villa in English Arts and Crafts style, faced with red Ruabon bricks with areas of decorative cast detailing, and stucco with black-painted timber-framing at upper levels/gables; red roof-tiles; range of window treatments: single, grouped, mullioned and often transomed also, manyu upper panels small-paned.

Asymmetrical, 2 & 3 storeys with crenellated and iron-crested square 4-storey tower beside main entrance (modern wheelchair ramp); deep-eaved gabled (sometimes jettied) and semi-polygonal piended roofs.

Decorative interior, with elaborate chimney pieces, timber panelling, leaded glass panels.

Statement of Interest

In use for some years as an old folks' home.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17844240

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (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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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)