Gate Piers, Avondhu House Hotel, 168 Bo'Ness Road, Grangemouth

J M McLaren, architect. Dated 1878. Substantial asymmetrical

Baronial house. 2 storeys and attic. Snecked, stugged

ashlar with tooled dressings, squared rubble sides.

Entrance in 2-storey square projection re-entrant angle to

right of front facade, elaborate neo-Jacobean door-piece with

balustrade and urns above. Cres and urn in panel to left of

door. Front elevation dominated by bold semi-elliptical

projection with sculptured frieze over ground and 1st floors,

attic window set in moulded architraves, pedimented and

flanked by obelisk supporters, cornical roof and weathervane.

Large chimney to W. Windows mainly transomed or cross design

with some stained glass to upper lights of dining room. Large

3-light square projecting window to E.

Single storey rear wing (now altered). Large rear

shouldered wallhead stack, 2 swept dormers.

Gatepiers: square ashlar, banded and panelled with deep

frieze pyramidal cap supporting ball finial.