Description

Mid 19th century. Victorian Renaissance. 2-storey and basement symmetrical reversed-plan, ashlar-faced semi detached on corner site: 2-window curved frontage, consoled windows ground floor, arched and keyblocked at 1st, straight frontage end sections 1-window and canted bay semi-elliptically arched and keyblocked doorpieces with 1st floor balconies on consoles, chanelled pilaster ends, main cornice and blocking course, slated roof. Later pedimented glass and cast iron porch to No 17.

Statement of Interest

Part of Kings Park Conservation Area group. (sentence removed) Taken as a whole the area is an outstanding early to late Victorian villa development with remarkably few later additions.

The glass and cast iron porch at No 17 was manufactured by Walter Macfarlane & Co Ltd at their Saracen Foundry. This Glasgow based company (1850-1967) was a prominent and prolific iron manufacturer, whose work was shipped throughout the British Empire.

Description revised April 2007.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17846716

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)