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Summary

Description

Thomas Graham Abercrombie, 1902. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay villa with mock half-timbered, cantilevered gable. Whitewashed harl with polished sandstone dressings. Moulded eaves course. Polygonal-roofed corbelled porch with keystoned round-headed window and 1st floor cill course. Transoms and mullions.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical, Broad gabled elevation. Transomed window to centre at ground flanked by sandstone bays each with canted 8-light transomed window; jettied

centre panel under semicircular hoodmould and flanking horizontally-aligned tripartites under uniting corniced hoodmould, further small horizontal tripartite in gablehead abutting half-timbering.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: centre bay with dominant squat, canted 2-storey entrance stair corbelled to square at 1st floor with lean-to porch. Keystoned round-headed window to canted ground floor with timber door under lean-to porch on return to left, small window on return to right, 4-part canted window above giving way to finialled polygonal red-tiled roof. Broad gable to left with shouldered stack breaking skew to left, small bipartite in gablehead. Further bipartite in bay to right at ground and flat-roofed bipartite breaking eaves above.

W ELEVATION: variety of elements to asymmetrically-fenestrated elevation including gable with flanking tall stacks to right and swept roof to left.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: broad gabled elevation with 2 windows to each floor at right, projecting chimney breast to left and 4-part horizontal window in gablehead. Single storey piended porch to outer right.

12-pane, and 6-pane over plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows; round-headed window with decoratively- astragalled semicircle over casement. Grey slates and red tiles. Flat-coped harled stacks with some cans. Deeply overhanging eaves with plain bargeboarding; terracotta ridge tiles and finials.

INTERIOR: fine period decorative scheme in place. Decorative cornicing; panelled timber doors some with Art Nouveau coloured leaded glass top panels; timber fire surrounds.

Dining room with compartmented ceiling, timber detail and plate shelf incorporating fire surround with semicircular overmantel and inset mirror. Timber-balustered dog-leg stair with ball-finialled newel and timber-lined stair to attic billiard room. Butler's pantry with part-glazed cupboards.

TERRACE WALL: flat-coped rubble terrace wall with centre steps and flanking stone urns.

Statement of Special Interest

Holmhurst was built for William Lang Junior. Thornly Park is a fine survival of an earlier 20th century garden suburb, with other notable buildings by T G Abercrombie, at Nos 2 and 33 Thornly Park Avenue, and possibly at 23 South Avenue. T G Abercrombie, with his partner William Kerr from 1890-1903, were

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