Description

Mid Victorian. Asymmetrical 2-storey and attic coursed rubble semi-detached villa on corner site.

Gladstone Place frontage 2-window between advanced end sections with rectangular bays, having stilted lintel treatment, off-centre pilastered and square column porch in re-entrant angle, centre wallhead chimney. Snowdon Place frontage has right-hand advanced section with rectangular bay of similar description, square-columned porch in re-entrant angle, 3-window to left. French truncated pyramid roofs with marked bell cast, small round arched dormers. 4 to Gladstone Place, 1 to Snowdon Place.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: to S and E. Low stone wall surmounted by cast iron railings

with stilletto baluster heads.Ornamental decorative cast iron cages with finials surrounding central upright support and to corners.

Statement of Interest

Part of Kings Park Conservation Area group. Taken as a whole this area forms an outstanding early to late Victorian villa development with remarkably few later intrusions.

The railings to the East of the house are particularly notable for the unusual decorative cages that surround the corner and central posts.

Description revised April 2007.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56646551

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock