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Summary

Description

Circa 1875. 2-storey and attic 3-bay rectangular-plan villa with single storey rear wing and stable block to NW; cream sandstone, ashlar front, squared and snecked stugged rubble rear and sides; base course; banded string course above ground floor; eaves cornice with blocking course; channelled quoins; stop-chamfered reveals; ashlar mullions; bracketted cills.

SE (FRONT) ELEVATION: central architraved entrance door with consoled cornice over panelled frieze, panelled door with rectangular plate glass fanlight; single window at 1st floor above; bay to left with full-height canted window (1-2-1); canted timber dormer (1-2-1) with segmental pediment to centre lights; right bay with bipartite windows to ground and 1st floor; small bipartite timber dromer above.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey M-piended service bays spanning elevation; 2 windows to left; main block with central bipartite stair window; raised wallhead with 2 segmental-arched windows flanked by shouldered wallhead stacks.

SE ELEVATION: 3-bay; banded eaves course with blocking course; gabled blank bay to left with corniced apex stack and blind keystones round-arched window in gablehead; bipartite windows to ground floor of centre and right bays, single windows at 1st floor; bipartite and single window to rear wing.

SW ELEVATION: as SE elevation with steel fire escape stair, bipartite dormer to centre.

STABLE BLOCK: single storey and hayloft; squared and snecked sandstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings; hayloft doors breaking eaves as gabled dormerheads; gabled bay with carriage doors and apex stack. Timber sash and case windwos with plate glass glazing, some 4-pane windows to rear and sides; Scottish slate piend and platform roof, lead flashings; 2 wallhead, 2 apex stacks (see above).

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Tall rubble boundary wall with semi-circular coping, low rubble wall to front with saddleback coping, coped gatepiers, cast-iron gates.

Statement of Special Interest

Previously known as 12 Spylaw Road. Address changed 12 October 1999.The survival of the stable block contributes to a large extent to the listed building status.

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