Description

1902, offices to rear raised. 2-storey, 3-bay, L-plan, mansard-roofed house with dominant curvilinear gables. Harled. Overhanging eaves and square-section gutter giving appearance of cornice. Round-headed door and dormer windows; stone mullions.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Centre bay with projecting dwarf wall and piers, former base of porch (see Notes), corniced cantilevered canopy and 3-part French door with small pane glazing; dormer window above in mansard; each flanking broad gabled bay with canted tripartite window and corniced blocking course below window in gablehead.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: round-headed, cavetto-corniced canopy over doorway with stop-chamfered splay and deep-set, part-glazed door to right of centre; tall wallhead stack off-centre right with flanking dormer windows.

N ELEVATION: variety of openings at ground with 2 dormer windows to right flanking wallhead stack, and further dormer window to left.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical elevation including projecting wing to right and horizontal stair window in re-entrant angle to left.

12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates and terracotta ridge tiles. Coped, harled stacks with terracotta cans.

INTERIOR: hall with panelled dado and timber balustered dog-leg staircase. Room to SW with fine decorative plasterwork cornicing and frieze, timber fireplace with overmantel and picture rail.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: coped rubble boundary walls; coped, square-section ashlar gatepiers and cast-iron gates.

Statement of Interest

Built for Charles Heggie, linen manufacturer, by a Kirkcaldy architect who designed a similar, but larger, house in Boglily Road. The present owner purchased the house in 1981 from the Heggie family who passed on a photograph showing the family sitting in the original porch advanced beyond the present with 4 columns on terrace dies supporting entablatured canopy and with balustraded sections flanking central opening. The 'bungalow' form was avant-garde, a type more common from 1920s and 30s.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77772046

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey