Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

KENNEDY GARDENS, RATHMORE (FORMERLY RATHELPIE VILLA) INCLUDING LITTLE RATHMORE, UPPER RATHMORE, NORTH FLAT, SOUTH FLAT AND BOUNDARY WALLSLB40919

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
08/06/1978
Local Authority
Fife
Planning Authority
Fife
Burgh
St Andrews
NGR
NO 50180 16581
Coordinates
350180, 716581

Description

John Milne, 1861 with alterations by Charles Stewart Still Johnston 1906, and Walker & Pride 1934-39. Large multi-gabled 2-storey and attic 3-bay villa with 4-stage central tower with idiosyncratic Gothic detailing prominently sited in Kennedy Gardens, now subdivided into flats (2007). Squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar margins. Base course, cill course and overhanging eaves with decorative timber bargeboards.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: N (street) elevation with segmental arched entrance with shallow stone canopy forming base of tower. Square-plan tower with later saddleback-roofed upper storey. 2-storey advanced 4-light canted bay with gabled attic storey to right. To left recessed gabled single bay. To far left further lower recessed wing with central gable.

Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Large gable stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: (partly seen 2006). Altered to form 5 flats. Ground floor principal room with full height timber panelling, simple stone chimneypiece and decorative Jacobethan strapwork plaster ceiling.

BOUNDARY WALLS: to NW low coped stone section of wall to NW.

Statement of Special Interest

A good example of the work of John Milne (1823-1904) who also designed the later Westerlee in Kennedy Gardens, now part of the University of St Andrews (see separate listing). Rathmore is a distinctive large villa with idiosyncratic Gothic detailing and a dominant tower which gives it a distinctive profile. The quality of the design, such as the decorative timber bargeboards and tower, highlights the building's prominence in the streetscape.

Local knowledge suggests that the upper stage of the central tower is a later addition of around 1900 to provide a viewing platform towards the renowned golf courses. Plans dated 1906, in the Dean of Guild Register of Plans No 633, by the Edinburgh based architect Charles Stewart Still Johnston show additions (particularly of further dormer windows) and internal alteration being made at this period. One sheet is marked 'slight alterations of tower roof' indicating that it was initially constructed before this date. Johnston and Milne both worked with celebrated Baronial architect David Bryce. Walker & Pride, the St Andrews based architects, were involved in the subdivision of the building on behalf of the St Andrews Building Company in the 1930's.

Kennedy Gardens forms part of the Victorian and Edwardian residential expansion of St Andrews. Its layout is evident in the Feuing Plan of 1857 produced by Milne. Kennedy Gardens in characterised by large villa construction, in small plots, taking advantage of views to the north. The plan also shows that the building was built for Mr Andrew Aikman, founder of the St Andrews grocery firm Aikman & Terras.

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References

Bibliography

University of St Andrews Library, Feuing Plan (1857), St Andrews University Muniments, ref. UY 1386. Dean of Guild Register of Plans No 633 (University of St Andrews Library). 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1893-5). Annabel Ledgard "John Milne" in Building for a New Age (ed J Frew, 1984), p25-31. J M Frew "St. Andrews Western Suburbs 1860-1914" (1978) in Three Decades of Historical Notes (ed M Innes & J Whelan, 1991), p104. John Gifford The Buildings of Scotland - Fife (1992) p392. Glen Pride The Kingdom of Fife (1999) p135. Dictionary of Scottish Architects (www.codexgeo.co.uk). Information courtesy of owners.

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