Description
Mid 19th century. 2-storey villa with attics; lower, 2-storey
addition to E doubling size, 1893, Alexander Skirving
architect. Scottish Jacobean features. Stugged ashlar
coursers with polished dressings, bull-faced low plinth over
slope at N. N elevation (windows mostly mullioned with
hood-moulds): left (1893) range recessed, with crenellated
porch projecting from re-entrant angle; conical-roofed,
round, angle turret at left (mullioned and transomed windows)
rising above eaves. Porch has pointed doorway with moulded
reveals, hood-mould and fanlight; perron with arcaded
balustraded, bull-faced piers and retaining wall; 2
wrought-iron lamps. Range to right has ground floor
tripartite, gabled dormerhead with dummy gun loop over window
above; right bay slightly advanced, 2-storey canted window
below pointed attic light, gable with kneelers.
String at 1st floor cill level. Mostly apex stacks. Slate
roofs. 2-storey canted window on W elevation, and
gambrel-roofed single storey wash house at SE both by
Skirving.
Interior: front ground floor rooms and hall have decorative
plasterwork cornices and ribbed ceilings; carved wooden
chimney pieces in hall and dining room. Fitted, low,
bookshelf cabinets in library incorporating chimneypiece.
Stair has unusual wood-framed balustrade. Modern steel fire
escape from attic to 1st floor. Leaded glass stair and porch
windows.
2 pairs of chamfered, square, gatepiers with shaped pyramidal
caps linked by low retaining wall; all ashlar. Decorative
wrought-iron gates.