Description

Circa 1880. 2-storey, 4-bay, symmetrical double villa with idiosyncratic details; single storey wings with attics adjoining house to sides and extending to rear. Red sandstone coursed rubble with ashlar dressings to principal elevation; squared and snecked rubble to sides and rear. Base course; advanced cills to 1st floor windows; deep cornice.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorways to 2 central bays; panelled doors; round-arched, plate glass fanlights; pedimented bracketed hoodmoulds, pilasters and decoratively carved keystones to doorpieces; single windows above with slightly arched architraves and decorative brackets to cills. Full-height, 3-light, canted windows to outer bays; ground floor central lights segmental-arched; plain, tapering aprons to central 1st floor windows above.

N AND S ELEVATIONS: single storey wings with attics to E bays and protruding to rear of house.

Plate glass, timber, sash and case windows to No 9; modern replacement pivot windows to No 7. Grey slate piended roof (slate roofs to attics of wings); coursed, coped wallhead stacks; canted, pedimented dormers flanking coped, central ridge stack.

Statement of Interest

Similar to contemporary houses at 11 and 13 Marchhall Crescent (see separate list entries).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56648092

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)