The Shiel

The Shiel is a house built in 1906 by Edgar Wood. It is a large, detached, asymmetrical building made of brick with a stone slate roof, featuring two storeys and three bays. The central bay projects forward and has an off-centre door surrounded by a dentilled architrave and a flat hood. Above the door is a five-light mullioned window, and the gable is coped with coped kneelers. The first and third bays have ground floor windows with mullions and transoms, while the first floor features mullioned windows. All windows are fitted with leaded lights. The steeply pitched roof has two ridge stacks. The right gable includes an inglenook chimney stack with curved canted sides and fire windows, along with a small 20th-century extension. The left elevation has a two-storey canted bay window. An attached garage, which was formerly a coachhouse, is designed in the same style, though it may have been built slightly later. Inside, there is a panelled stair, decorative plaster ceilings on the ground floor, and a cross-barrel-vaulted hall. Three of the bedroom ceilings are barrel-vaulted, with one dating from around 1980. The house features some notable fittings, including light switches. It was built speculatively as part of the Richardson Estate.