Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

SOUTHWOOD ROAD, SOUTHWOOD HOUSE, WITH BOUNDARY WALL, GATES AND GATEPIERSLB48578

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
09/04/2002
Local Authority
South Ayrshire
Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Parish
Dundonald
NGR
NS 34096 29111
Coordinates
234096, 629111

Description

John A Campbell, 1905, with later alterations, demolition and additions. 2-storey asymmetrical T-plan Arts and Crafts/Scots Vernacular house with gabled dormer windows breaking eaves at 1st floors. Cream-harled brick with 'very fine blue-grey freestone dressings.' 1st floor partially jettied. Crowstepped gables.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION: broad wallhead stack to left. Steps to 2-leaf timber panelled door in roll-moulded surround with cartouche over in 2nd bay from left, flanked by single windows; small bipartite

window over, flanked by 2 windows with carved gableheads breaking eaves. Asymmetrical gable with bipartite window adjoining wallhead gable to right.

S ELEVATION: projecting wing to right with shaped gable to dormer (conservatory being built adjoining at ground floor in this position, 2002). Linking bay with French door (modern glazing) in moulded surround with carved panel over to ground and scrolled dormerhead above. Irregularly fenestrated gabled section to left with 2 windows linked vertically in stone surround to right and apex stack.

W ELEVATION: advanced 2-bay section to left with later segmental-arched opening to centre, flanked by windows; window breaking eaves to 1st floor above in roll-moulded surround with carving to gable. Slightly recessed single bay to right. W elevation of main wing to outer right and left. Modern

conservatory adjoining E elevation.

INTERIOR: shallow barrel vault and decorative plaster-work to drawing-room ceiling.

Small-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows; some modern glazing to rear. Slates 'specially selected in brown, orange and olive-green shades.' Corniced wall-head and ridge stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron down pipes with decorative hopper.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATES AND GATEPIERS: ashlar-coped harled boundary walls. 2-leaf decorative wrought-iron gates. Obelisk-topped gate-piers.

Statement of Special Interest

Although altered (and servants' wing to E demolished), Southwood remains a distinctive and stylish example of the synthesis of Arts and Crafts and Scottish vernacular detailing, with fine carved ornament. The illustrations in Nicol's book indicate its contemporary importance.

References

Bibliography

J Nicol DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE IN SCOTLAND (1908) frontispiece and plates 12,13. Davis, Michael C THE CASTLES AND MANSIONS OF AYRSHIRE (1991) pp 108-9 and 378.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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