Documents

There are no additional online documents for this record.

Summary

Description

R Thornton Shiells, 1858, re-erected 1899 from 2 Bruntsfield Terrace. Large 2-storey and attic asymmetrical-plan gothic detailed villa; cream sandstone, squared and snecked rubble with dressed ashlar dressings and reddish pointing; base course; chamfered reveals; stepped cill course at 1st floor; ashlar mullions; crowstepped gables.

NW (FRONT) ELEVATION: 4-bay; advanced gabled bay to left with gabletted crowstepps, 2-storey canted window (1-2-1) off-set at 1st floor with fishscale bellcast roof; round-arched canopied ashlar entrance porch in re-entrant angle to bay left of centre with lean-to stone slated roof, short pedestaled baluster columns with bulbous bases and elaborately carved foliate shafts and capitals, foliage carving to spandrels, trefoiled arch on return, doorpiece with bolection moulding, panelled outer and inner doors, chequered vestibule of black and white marble, honeycomb leaded panes to fanlight and inner door; bipartite window at ground floor to right of centre with basket-arched hoodmould and foliate label-stops; at 1st floor to centre bays single windows breaking eaves in crocketted and finialled gabled dormerheads, inset pointed-arch panels (right dated 1858); corner bay to outer right with corbelled octagonal turret on octagonal shaft, single window to NW and SW, bellcast French pavilion roof of banded fishscale slating and cast-iron brattishing. L-plan service wing to right.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled bay to right with crowsteps and wallhead stack, large window at ground floor with timber mullions, bipartite window at 1st floor, small single window in gablehead; 3 single windows at ground floor to left, 2 windows at 1st floor, 2 windows at 2nd floor breaking eaves; lower 2-storey service wing to left. SW ELEVATION: M

References

Bibliography

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

Listed building consent is required for changes to a listed building which affect its character as a building of special architectural or historic interest. The relevant planning authority is the point of contact for applications for listed building consent.

Find out more about listing and our other designations at www.historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-support. You can contact us on 0131 668 8914 or at designations@hes.scot.