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Summary

Description

Circa 1780 with later alterations and additions; James Pearson Alison responsible for final form and interior, 1903. 2-storey and basement, 3-bay with single bay wings E-plan symmetrical villa, built on terraced site with ground falling to SE (REAR). Harled with ashlar dressings; long and short quoins. Regular fenestration.

NW (FRONT) ELEVATION: 2-storey; full-width sunken basement with area covered by grille. Central 3-bay block with Roman Doric porch at centre; paterae to frieze, dentilled cornice and blocking course; panelled oak door with 4-pane rectangular fanlight. 1st floor windows hard up against eaves. Lower single bay wings bowed at ground with Venetian windows and castellated parapet with moulded coping (parapet transferred from rear elevation in 1903); bipartite 1st floor windows

breaking eaves with pedimented dormerhead.

SW ELEVATION: raised basement with pilastered doorpiece at centre; flush-panelled door with letterbox fanlight; large and small windows to left. Principal floor with tall window at centre. At 1st floor, central section breaking eaves with shallow segmental-headed bipartite window squeezed between pair of stacks.

SE (GARDEN) ELEVATION: 3-storey. At centre, projecting 2-storey porch/garden room with balustraded parapet; door at ground and Venetian window to principal floor; 1st floor with glazed door to balcony. Flanking bays with bipartite windows at ground (that to right partly converted to door) and large windows to principal floor, that to left with French windows which serviced (removed) balcony. Outer bays advanced with projecting bow to ground and principal floor; tripartite window at ground, Venetian window to principal floor and balustraded

parapet; Venetian window to 1st floor and Dutch gable with segmental pediment at apex. Inner returns with windows to principal floor. (Upper 2 floors of outer bays added in 1903).

NE ELEVATION: as SW elevation, but bipartite window and plain back door to basement.

Timber sash and case windows; largely 12-pane, but varies according to size. Piended roofs; grey slates. Corniced ashlar stacks.

INTERIOR: totally transformed by J P Alison in typical lush Edwardian manner. Wood panelled Hall and Stair with fluted composite order columns framing fireplace, and urns overflowing with fruit on stair newels. Alisons's best Adam style plasterwork and fireplace to Drawing Room, tinged with Baronialism, especially 2-tier fireplace, to Dining Room. Upstairs, pretty Glasgow style fireplaces to 2 bedrooms.

BOUNDARY AND TERRACE WALLS, AND GATEPIERS: rubble boundary wall with rectangular boulder coping. Square ashlar gatepiers with cornice and very squat pyramidal caps. Retaining terrace wall.

Statement of Special Interest

B Group with Lodge at Easter Street, and Stables (Wellfield Cottage), both now in separate ownership (see separate listings). The modest front gives little hint of the grandeur to the rear.

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