Description
Mills and Shepherd, 1907-9. Long asymmetrical, villa,
stepped-plan, 2-storey, attic and basement, rock-faced
rubble with ashlar dressings.
S elevation: all windows mullioned and transomed with
linking cill courses; 2-storey canted bay to left; 2nd left
bay gabled with slightly canted ground floor window; 3rd bay semi-circular arched garden entrance, deeply inset door with
altered glazing, tripartite over; 4th bay, 3-storey 5-light
mullioned and transomed bow; 5th bay set back, irregular
fenestration and gable, re-entrant angle turret with pyramidal
roof, corbelled out from 1st floor. 2 later small-paned dormers. 2-storey piend-roofed service wing set well back. Buttressed
garden wall with square balustrade and dog-legged stair
to left of bow.
N elevation: square projecting pyramidal-roofed tower to
W with large mullioned and transomed leaded glass stair
window and off-centre entrance beneath armorial. Ornate
wrought-iron grille to porch, window blocked by later
outside stair. Set back bay to right, blind except
quarter-circular turret in re-entrant. Service wing advanced
to left, gabled with off-centre stack and modern projection.
Ashlar stacks, piended and gabled swept slate roofs, lead
caps to turrets, ornate finials removed. Sash and case
windows, 4-pane upper cases and, to S elevation, single-pane
lower cases.
BOUNDARY WALL to Perth Road, semi-cylindrical, conical-capped
gatepiers.