Description
Style of David Hamilton, circa 1842. Two-storey villa in
Hamilton's own Tudoresque style, lower service wing to north;
now offices. Harled, with ashlar margins, dressings, and
chamfered ingoes: mostly hood-moulded openings; mostly
original horizontal glazing pattern (sashes); gables
crowstepped or with saw-toothed skews. Three-bay west (main
entrance) elevation 3 bays, advanced gable right with canted
ground floor window, crenellated porch in re-entrant angle,
wall-head gable to left, single window beyond, in upper
level of wing. South elevation is symmetrical, 3 finialled
and gabled window bays, the outer slightly advanced, shallow
central porch with door now a window. Tall, east-facing stair
window. Stacks have square flues linked by cornice, some cut
down. Slated roofs. Inside, ornament is classical, principal
rooms have decorative cornice plasterwork, chimney pieces
also decorative, cast-iron stair balusters a common pattern.