Documents

There are no additional online documents for this record.

Summary

Description

Dated 1892, altered and extended. 2-storey, 5-bay, rectangular-plan, end terrace house (sub-divided) with keystoned and pedimented moulded doorpiece, tall round-arched stair window with decorative astragals and coloured glass, and some fine interior detail; on ground falling to S and E. Painted ashlar with ashlar margins, quoin strips and base course to W; ashlar with 1st floor cill course and eaves cornice to E.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: bay to right of centre with broad doorpiece incorporating deep-set vertically-panelled timber door and flanking lights giving way to stair window, regular fenestration to flanking bay with further door in penultimate bay to left and single window to each floor at outer left.

S ELEVATION: gabled elevation with windows to outer left and right at 1st floor.

E (REAR, FORMER ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: bay to left of centre with modern conservatory concealing fine doorpiece comprising channelled voussoirs and keystone to segmental-arched doorway with panelled timber door, pilastered jambs and coloured leaded glass to semicircular fanlight; single window to 1st floor. Flanking bays with full-height canted windows rising into slightly reduced canted dormer windows. Bays to right with channelled doorpiece at left and later single storey extension to right at ground, 2 windows at 1st floor and small semicircular-pedimented dormer window centred above.

4-pane and plate glass glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, except to dormers and ground W; margined multi-pane glazing to stair window (see below). Grey slates with small rooflights. Coped ashlar ridge and gablehead stacks with polygonal cans. Ashlar-coped skews with block skewputts. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings to E.

INTERIOR: some fine detail retained, including decorative cornices and frieze, timber fire surrounds and panelled reveals. Segmental-arched screen door with coloured glass to W door, square-headed screen door with figurative coloured glass and encaustic-tiled hall floor to E door. Coloured glass to dated stair window with figuratively-detailed medallions.

Statement of Special Interest

Ellerslie is an unusual, interesting and well-detailed house which has undergone a number of changes but retains a fine presence particularly to its Robert Street front. It was purchased by a 'characterful' family from Glasgow as a summer residence, who added the two northernmost bays to accommodate a music room for entertainments. The next owner, Mr Mackenzie, ran a boarding house at Ellerslie, and sold this on to the Goodwin sisters. The Strachan family purchased the house in 1950 and subsequently installed the west (Robert Street) door, and carried out the conversion to two flats. At that time there were large fireplaces in every room, that to the dining room being of marble.

References

Bibliography

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.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

Listed building consent is required for changes to a listed building which affect its character as a building of special architectural or historic interest. The relevant planning authority is the point of contact for applications for listed building consent.

Find out more about listing and our other designations at www.historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-support. You can contact us on 0131 668 8914 or at designations@hes.scot.