Description
Circa 1900, with later additions. Large 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, piend-and-platform swept roofed villa with inglenook fireplace and scrolled broken-pedimented doorpiece; flanking single storey set-back wings, that to W flat-roofed with classical details including Venetian window, and that to right with attic, piend-roof and timpany gable, and some fine interior detail. Stugged, squared and snecked coursed rubble with some Aberdeen bond; ashlar canted bay; polished dressings. Corniced lintels to bays flanking centre of main block at ground. Projecting cills. Stone mullions. Round-arched windows.
S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: centre bay at ground with doorpiece comprising slightly raised margins and large segmental, scrolled broken pediment, part-glazed panelled timber door with decorative leaded sidelights and fanlight. Bay to left of centre with square-plan, wide-centre tripartite window with glazed returns and parapet with centre embrasure; bay to right with ball-finialled, polygonal-roofed, full-height canted window. 1st floor with single window to centre bay and bipartite to left, 2 flat-roofed bipartite windows above. Lower wing set-back at outer left with cornice and blocking course over broad Venetian window; 2 windows to small inglenook projecting in re-entrant angle at right. Wing to right with 2 single windows to left, bipartite to outer right and similar dormer windows above.
W ELEVATION: low projecting canted wing with round-arched windows to SW and NW faces, and blank bay to left with gable facing N over later extension.
E ELEVATION: low projecting wing with single window in bay to right of centre and 2 small air vents to left; dominant shouldered wallhead stack piercing swept roof at centre.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: 20th century flat-roofed extension at ground, symmetrical fenestration to set-back face of main block above including round-arched stair window.
Predominantly timber small-pane uppers sashes over plate glass glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows; decoratively-astragalled top-light to centre light of Venetian window; coloured leaded glazing to inglenook and main door. Grey slate, swept roof with deeply overhang eaves and exposed rafter ends. Large, coped, squared rubble wallhead stacks with cans. Ashlar-coped skews with flat skewputts to timpany gable.
INTERIOR: decorative plasterwork cornices and consoles; some dado rails. Tiled vestibule and part-glazed screen door with dentilled cornice leads to stairhall with dog-leg part-cantilevered staircase with decorative timber balusters and square newel posts under boarded timber ceiling and stair window with boarded soffit and panelled reveals; inglenook with compartmented ceiling, small fireplace (boarded) under corniced mantel with decorative skirt, and flanking deep-set windows with timber-lined reveals and coloured glass; elaborately carved timber fire surround.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low, saddleback coped boundary walls to S with 2 pairs of square-section, corniced, ashlar gatepiers; semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls elsewhere.