Isla Bank Including Boundary Walls And Gatepiers, 60 Arduthie Road

1. Single storey and attic, 3-bay, finely-detailed villa with ball-finialled framed doorhead, ball-finialled, corniced blocking courses to canted window, dentilled cornices to canted dormer windows and decorative braced bargeboarding to pedimented dormer window; fine interior. Stugged, coursed and squared rubble with stugged ashlar dressings 2 courses deep; coursed snecked rubble to sides and rear. Base and eaves courses. Roll-moulded doorway, stone mullions, raked cills and chamfered arrises.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Centre bay with steps up to deep-set panelled timber door with fanlight worded 'ISLA BANK', canted windows in flanking bays giving way to canted dormers above and small pedimented wallhead dormer to centre.

4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar gablehead stacks with full-complement of polygonal cans; ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts. Square-section, cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings.

INTERIOR: good decorative scheme in place. Plain and decorative plasterwork cornices and ceiling roses; sideboard arches; architraved panelled timber doors and reveals; marble (see Notes) and timber fire surrounds. Encaustic-tiled vestibule floor leading to screen door with multi-pane coloured leaded glazing leading to stairhall with keystoned and pilastered segmental arch and timber dog-leg staircase with ball-finialled carved newel posts and turned balusters; landing with consoled round-arched opening.

BOUNDARY WALLS AMD GATEPIERS: coped rubble boundary walls with pyramidally-coped square-section ashlar gatepiers.