Description
Findlay, Stewart and Robbie, 1925. 2-storey 4-bay
asymmetrical villa, harled with brick exposed at base and
eaves. Ashlar Garden entrance and sills.
S ELEVATION: unusual garden entrance at left within tall
segmental arch, tripartite ashlar doorway. Cornice carries
metal balcony, glazing inserted at both levels. Ground
floor to left: 3 round-headed windows between 2 large
flat-roofed canted bays. 4 piended dormer roofs cap the
entrance arch and 3 1st floor windows projecting through
eaves. Top 6 courses of brick exposed and corbelled out
to carry projecting eaves, broken at 3 points by rainwater
goods.
Sides and rear similarly treated. Principal entrance at E
in brick surround, 3 small windows over.
Steep piended red tiled roof. 3 brick ridge stacks.
Small-paned top-hopper windows.
ENTRANCE removed circa 1970 from Perth Road, re-erected
at W Grove Avenue: square buttressed gatepiers with
castellated pyramidal caps and angle masks by Coe and
Goodwin, formerly to Farington Hall, 1852. Rubble-built
boundary walls, with modern railings to Perth Road.