Description

Late 19th century. Single storey and attic, asymmetrical 3-bay, cottage-style house. Sandstone ashlar to front, squared and snecked to sides and rear, contrasting margins and ashlar dressings, raised quoins. Scroll ornament to painted timber barge boards.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-step stone flight with square section piers and ashlar walls leading to entrance door in advanced, gabled porch, broad 9-panelled door with rectangular fanlight, rooflight and pedimented bipartite dormer above. Gabled bay to right; canted window at ground floor, cornice and parapet with ball finials, corniced window centred above at 1st floor, with strapwork pediment above. Bay to left; set back with projecting tripartite bay window at ground floor, blocking course, stone dormer window above with segmental-arched head and stone finial in tile hung 4-sided elongated French pavilion roof.

N ELEVATION: 2 bays off-set to left, boarded windows, gable above.

S ELEVATION: 2-bay blank wall, band course, gable to right.

W ELEVATION: 4 windows at ground floor, large dormer breaking eaves to centre, tall window, dormers flanking.

4-pane timber sash and case windows, plate glass to tripartite at front, 3-light dormer to centre at rear. Graded grey slate pitched roofs to N, to dormers and to projecting gables, piended roof to W. Cast-iron brattishing to pavilion roof. Shouldered ashlar stacks upon ridge of gabled projections to N and S, corbelled stack rising from eaves to S.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low coped stone wall to N, S and E at front enclosing garden, rubble and brick wall to N and S at rear enclosing garden.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77774737

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)