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Summary

Description

Rowand Anderson and Paul, 1936. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, artisan classical detached house with attached garage. Pedimented doorcase to main entrance, bow windows to N elevation and louvred timber external window shutters to principal (N and S) elevations. Harled brick with concrete dressings. Brick plinth to house, concrete coping to gables and flanking walls.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: semicircular-plan concrete step in front of main entrance with moulded concrete architrave with pulvinated cornice surmounted by moulded pediment; 6-panel timber door. Flanking windows with louvred timber external shutters. Slightly smaller shuttered window above and to flanking bays. Timber water butts on square brick plinths to either side of elevation. Sill course across ground floor windows. Deep harled eaves band. Single storey garage set back to left of house; large garage entrance with metal door to left; round-arched entrance to open lobby to right; boarded timber door (to garage) behind; boarded timber door (to kitchen) to right re-entrant. Coped flat roof to garage. Short section of coped wall set back to right of house; round-arched gateway (to rear garden) to centre with boarded timber gate.

S ELEVATION: shallow 3-light bow windows, each with pair of timber mullions, to outer ground floor bays; window with louvred timber external shutters to central bay. Slightly smaller shuttered window to each bay to 1st floor. Low coped parapet above. Short section of coped wall with round-arched gateway with boarded timber gate set back to left of house. Flat-roofed garage with coped edges set back to right of house; 2 entrances with boarded timber doors to left (that to outer left is recessed slightly); window to right.

W ELEVATION: coped wall projects at right angles to left of ground floor; single ground floor window to left; tall stair window above. 2 1st floor windows to right; entrance with multi-pane glazed door beneath that to left. Right pitch of gable truncated and shouldered to form parapet.

E ELEVATION: flat-roofed garage projects to centre of ground floor. Entrance with multi-pane glazed door set back to left; small ground floor window (possible inserted) set back to right. 2 windows to 1st floor.

Mainly 12 and 16-pane timber sash and case windows. Red tile roof. Coped harled gablehead stacks to E and W elevations; round cans. Cast iron rainwater goods with decorative rainwater heads.

INTERIOR: internal layout and 2-panel timber doors largely intact. Tall entrance hall (almost a cube in dimensions), lit by stair window. Main living areas south-facing. Intact simple timber chimneypiece with black tiled fire surround to main living room at SW corner.

Coped brick wall with plain coped gatepiers to N of house.

Statement of Special Interest

A fine intact example of an early domestic design, probably by Basil Spence, who was working for Rowand Anderson and Paul during the 1930's. It is very similar to a drawing by Spence in the National Monuments Record of Scotland RIAS collection with the firm's name on it; however the house shown has an attic storey, a different main entrance and bow windows on principal elevation; there is no garage but the pair of water butts are included. Unusually for this date it derives inspiration from Georgian/Regency house design. 'Arguably, it is the most refined, if traditional, of Spence's early suburban houses' (Edwards).

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