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Summary

Description

James Campbell Walker, 1863. Single storey and attic asymmetrical cottage-style villa, parallel single storey service wings to NE; cream sandstone, squared and snecked rubble banded long and short bull-faced dressings with polished edges; chamfered reveals to canted windows; 1st floor windows with keystoned shouldered-arch lintels; overhanging eaves with exposed rafters; bargeboarded gables and dormers with king-posts and timber brackets on stone corbels.

SE (FRONT) ELEVATION: central advanced canted bay swept to square at 1st floor in gablehead, panelled entrance door with rectangular plate glass fanlight to centre with sidelights, single window in gablehead; single window at ground floor to right, window at 1st floor above breaking eaves in gabled dormerhead; small gabled timber conservatory to left; single window to service wing to outer right.

SW ELEVATION: 3-bay; 2 single windows at ground floor to centre bay, 1st floor window breaking eaves in gabled dormerhead; outer bays comprised of canted angle bays with tripartite window at ground floor, corbelled outer faces and single window to centre face at 1st floor breaking eaves in gabled dormerhead.

NW ELEVATION: central advanced gabled bay with single windows at ground and 1st floor; service wing to left with projecting central bay with window under catslide roof, secondary door and single windows.

NE ELEVATION: gable ended service wings, right wing with 3 single windows at ground floor, window in gablehead and apex stack to SW, left wing with shouldered-arch window at ground floor and shouldered wallhead stack to NW, secondary door in passage between wings; gabled main block with 2 single windows and carved tablet in gablehead, wallhead stack. Timber sash and case windows, mostly plate glass glazing to ground floor, 4-pane windows at 1st floor; purple slate roof, lead flashings; 2 wallhead and 1 apex stack (see above), 1 central stack; some octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Tall boundary wall of distinctive polygonal stonework with falt bull-faced coping, square banded gatepiers with ashlar coping, ornamental cast-iron gate.

Statement of Special Interest

The style of this villa is influenced by James Gowans' characteristic stick-style detailing, evident across the road at No 10 Napier Road, Lammerburn (J Gowans, 1859) and formerly at No 3 Napier Road, Rockville (J Gowans, 1858, demolished 1966). Campbell's Kirtle Lodge, 102 Trinity road, of 1863 has similar design and detailing as do properties in his style at 24 and 26 Mansionhouse Road, 36 Lauder Road and 11 and 13 Tantallon Place, Edinburgh.

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