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Summary

Description

Circa 1900. Single storey and attic, rectangular-plan, gabled villa. Stugged and snecked rubble, stugged ashlar dressings, piended slate roof, black serrated ridge tiles. Base course and deep bracketted eaves to S and E, plain bargeboards, cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers; mainly plate glass sash and case windows, stop-chamfered jambs to S and E.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: door to centre re-entrant angle masked by timber panelled and multi-pane glazed porch with swept roof, single window to left, bipartite slightly advanced to right, battered corniced stack rising through eaves, steep gabled dormer with round-headed window to right; pentice-roofed addition to angle at far right.

S ELEVATION: bay to left, 3-light canted window, bell-cast gable above with tripartite window, large grotesque representation of the devil at gable apex; tripartite window to right, gabled dormer rising through eaves with stepped round-headed tripartite window; original (?) conservatory to left on rubble base with later lean-to addition.

W ELEVATION: single storey, L-plan, piended-roofed kitchen projection at ground floor, large stack rising from main wallhead to centre.

N ELEVATION: window to centre, round-headed stair window with gabled dormerhead rising through eaves, bipartite window to right, door and window to kitchen bay at far right.

INTERIOR: polygonal central hall; decorative encaustic tile lobby floor; some original chimneypieces; original joinery; decorative ceiling cornices; Art-Nouveau stair window.

GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: ornate cast-iron gates, 2 capped ashlar gatepiers with small quadrants adjoining stugged and snecked, round-coped rubble boundary wall to N.

Statement of Special Interest

The Rowans was built for James Stewart Menzies and is dramatically situated to the north west of the old quarry known as the Ivy Den, and on the so-called ?coffin road? which led to Longforgan Parish Church. The representation of the devil on the S gable is particularly effective and unusual. The Rowan is stylistically similar to 88 and 90 Errol Road, listed separately.

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