Description

Circa 1910. Single storey and attic 4-bay symmetrical group of 4 semi-detached houses with mock Tudor details. Harled walls with applied half-timber decoration in gableheads.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-bay, with roof swept down to single storey over 2 centre bays creating porches, set between 2 advanced gables of outer bays. Small-pane timber windows advanced to centre with panelled and glazed timber doors on returns, flanking bays recessed at ground; 2-storey gabled outer bays with regular fenestration. Gabled dormers to centre bays.

E ELEVATION: 2-bay asymmetrical elevation comprising window at ground in bay to left, entrance door with tiled timber canopy porch in bay to right; window breaking eaves in gabled dormerhead with half-timbered dormerhead centred at 1st floor centre.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; centre 3 bays advanced, with pair of narrow windows at ground in centre bay, doors and windows in flanking bays; wallhead dormers centred above. Wide gabled bays to outer left and right; gabled single storey wing advanced in left bay.

Mullioned timber casements; red clay tile roofs to principal pitches and dormers; overhanging timber eaves with exposed rafter ends and timber barge boards; cast-iron rainwater goods. Decorative barge boards centred over inner bays of principal elevation. Harled 8-flue ridge stacks with deep moulded and corniced harled copes and predominantly red circular cans.

RAILINGS, GATES AND WALL: hooped iron railings with ball-finialled stanchions and matching gates enclosing gardens to S and E. Random rubble wall with saddleback copes to E.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Dundas Castle, including Blue Acre, Boat House, Castleloch, Castle Grove, Dovecot, Dundas Castle Keep, Dundas Loch Bridge, Fountain Sundial, Ice House, North Lodge, South Lodge and Walled Garden ( see separate listings).

Well detailed and constructed buildings of this style are comparatively rare in Scotland. These houses are reminiscent of works in Edinburgh and East Lothian by Dunn and Findlay.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17810658

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