Description
Watson and Salmond, architects. Built circa 1904. Large
asymmetrical Tudor villa. Mostly 2 storeys. Stugged red
sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. West elevation:
2 advanced wide gabled bays with mullioned windows (transomed
at ground floor and 1 projecting) to right, battered,
3-storey, square entrance tower in re-entrant angle, 2 narrow
bays to left. Tudor-arched door recessed in moulded
rectangular panel with small side lights and blocked
cornice; plaque with shaped hood-mould above and over 1st
floor tripartite; shaped parapet above string (latter broken
by slit opening). Mullioned ground floor window in
projecting bay with parapet to left of door, timber framing
above; narrow outer bay has corbelled and gabled 1st floor
window rising above eaves. Mullioned windows in north and
south gables; rear wing extends to east and returns south
forming U-plan courtyard, partly filled by conservatory;
2 tall mullioned and transomed windows to rear of main
block. Mullioned windows to most elevations mostly
square-headed; all windows leaded with small panes. Variety
of apex and wall head stacks, latter mostly battered;
tall square stack over north east angle of rear wing. Variety
of roof levels, all slated, with deeply projecting eaves.
Decorative wrought-iron lamp at main door. Set above
balustraded terrace wall to west. 2 panelled square gatepiers
with shaped cornices and pyramidal caps; panelled wooden
gates.