Cragston House, 13 Loudoun Street

Henry Edward Clifford, 1902. Asymmetrical, 2-storey, 3-bay Arts and Crafts villa with probably later lower, recessed half-timbered 2-storey wing to W and circa 2000, single-storey extension to S (garden elevation). Distinctive advanced bays with curved gables. Stugged, irregularly-coursed, squared sandstone with ashlar margins. Overhanging bracketted eaves. Some 3- and 4-light windows with stone mullions, canted bay window at E.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: entrance elevation to N: off-centre, full-height, 9-light stained-glass window with stone mullions and transoms. Curved gabled bay to right with part-glazed timber entrance door set within round-arched moulded doorpiece. Crow-stepped gabled bay to left with tall, narrow, corniced chimney stack at right and balustraded corner parapet to left.

INTERIOR: full height entrance hall with good quality timberwork. Three quarter height timber panelling with timber chimneypiece with tiled insert. Large stained glass window depicting sitting lady wearing bonnet (see Notes). Galleried landing above. Timber staircase with barley sugar balusters. Predominantly 2-panel timber doors with bespoke brass doorknobs. Ground floor principal room with decorative timber flooring in herringbone pattern. Tudor-arched openings over ground floor windows. Barrel vaulting to 1st floor ceilings. Principal bedroom with full-height timber panelling and built-in dressing table and wardrobes.

Predominantly 8 square-pane glazing to metal casement windows. Tiled roof. Coped gable and tall, wallhead chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers. Raised skews.

WALLS AND GATEPIERS: circa 2000. Partial boundary walls, some squared and coursed sandstone, some rubble with half-round coping to East and North. Pair of circular-plan squared and coursed sandstone gatepiers to left at street elevation with semi-spherical caps.