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Summary

Description

William Leiper, 1906. 2-storey, asymmetrical Arts and Crafts/Shavian Old English L-plan villa. Rake-jointed red sandstone rubble at ground with ashlar dressings; harled and mock-half timbering detail to jettied 1st floor. Ashlar mullioned and transomed windows at 1st floor; bargeboarded gables; bracketted overhanging eaves.

E (ENTRANCE/ALMA CRESCENT) ELEVATION: entrance bay to right, broader gabled bay slightly recessed to left. Advanced ashlar doorpiece off-centre right, pointed-arch, deep chamfered reverals, hoomould, 2-leaf panelled doors, deep-set vestibule door. Jettied half-timbered abovew at 1st floor; with 5-light window. Bipartite window at ground on return to right and off-centre right at 1st floor; gambrel roof. Bay to left, tripartite window at ground; small canted oriel to left with jettied half-timbered gablehead breaking eaves.

S (GARDEN) ELEVATION: full-height canted window breaking eaves to centre, mullioned and transomed windows at ground (2-2-2), timber mullioned windows at 1st floor (1-2-1), polygonal roof. Recessed bay to right at ground, modern (1991) conservatory abutting. Bipartite window to right at 1st floor. Gabled bay to outer left, narrow window to right at ground and 1st floor, off-set tiled course to gablehead with wallhead stack to centre breaking eaves at apex.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: full-height canted window breaking eaves to outer right, mullioned and transomed windows at ground (2-2-2), timber bipartites at 1st floor, polygonal roof. REcessed bay to left at ground, modern conservatory abutting, tripartite window at 1st floor. Bipartite windo w at 1st floor to outer left. Single storey lean-to projection to outer left, continued around N and E returns of W block. Bipartite window to 1st floor above on W elevation.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: mullioned and transomed bipartite stair window in re-entrant angle to left. Lean-to projection continued around wing advanced to right.

Multi-pane timber and lead-pane casement windows, some uPVC replacement pivot windows. Red tiled roof, red sandstone stack to S, harled to N. INTERIOR: not seen.

Statement of Special Interest

One of three villas (see also 43, 45 Alma Crescent) designed by

William Leiper for John Jack, a local builder. 41, 43 were built first with similar details composed differently. Number 45 is modelled on 41 with a later addition by Leiper:s pupil, W Hunter McNab.

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