Description

Circa 1850. 2-storey 3-bay L-plan house with later rear addition (1880). Cream sandstone, squared and snecked stugged rubble with droved ashlar dressings. Base course; bracketted cills; ashlar mullions; coped stacks with block corbels.

E (FRONT) ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to centre with projecting pilastered and corniced doorway with chamfered reveals, 2-leaf panelled door with rectangular plate glass fanlight; tall segmental-arched and keystoned stair window with shaped margins at 1st floor above. Outer bays with projecting bowed bipartite window surrounds at ground floor, segmental-arched cornice with shaped keystone; single window at 1st floor just breaking eaves with half-piend roof.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: advanced bay to right (1880) with single storey projection with 1930s bowed bay window; single storey projection in re-entrant angle; single storey flat-roofed outhouses to right.

S ELEVATION: single storey flat-roofed garage at ground floor; 2 wallhead stacks.

N ELEVATION: wallhead stack.

Timber sash and case windows with 12-lying-pane glazing. Piend slate roof with metal flashings; 3 wallhead stacks (see above), 1 central stack, some octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: hall re-decorated by Esme Gordon with plaster cameos of his children over husk garlands, timber staircase with cast-iron balustrade of anthemion flanked by palmettes.

Tall rubble wall to rear and sides with semi-circular coping, low rubble wall to front with flat coping of droved ashlar.

Statement of Interest

The villa was for some time the residence of the architect Esme Gordon and he carried out alterations to the interior and replaced the canted window of 1880 with a bowed 1930s version.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56631370

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)