Tidings Hill, Cadzow Crescent, Bo'Ness

A Hunter Crawford, dated 1908. 2-storey and attic L-plan large Arts and Crafts house now sympathetically subdivided to form 2 dwellings. Harled with moulded ashlar door and window margins. Bipartite and tripartite stone mullioned windows. Bow windows. Large stacks. Multi-gabled with mosaic detail at gable apexes.

W (GARDEN) ELEVATION: 6-bay. Large, wide slightly advanced stack rises from ground and separates bays 5 and 6. To left, advanced 2-storey and attic gable with 5-light canted bow window to ground and 1st floors. Single bay in re-entrant angle. Near-central entrance with side lights and semicircular-shaped cornice above. Timber door, upper part leaded pane glazing.

E ELEVATION: to left, 2-storey wing with contemporary timber conservatory with apsidal end to outer left. To right, 2-storey and attic wing set at right angles with M-pile gable. Flat-roofed single storey entrance in re-entrant angle.

S ELEVATION: cast-iron rainwater head dated 1908.

Predominantly 15-pane leaded pane casement windows. Red tiles. Large stack to W elevation with tall polygonal corniced cans. Large stack to N elevation. Further ridge stacks. Good cast-iron rainwater goods, some downpipes with decorative hoppers.

INTERIOR: excellent, largely intact. Long timber panelled drawing room with timber beamed ceiling. Wide timber floorboards. Large timber ingleneuk with carved motto, 'ANE'S AIN HEARTH IS GOWD'S WORTH'. Very good quality joinerywork, 12-panel timber doors. Former dining room now converted to kitchen. Many surviving fireplaces and chimneypieces. On 1st floor, 2 timber panelled bathrooms with original baths and predominantly original fittings.

ANCILLARY STRUCTURES: to N, combined glasshouse and potting shed. Timber glasshouse to W, harled potting shed to E with asymmetrical gable and pantiles. To S, later garage. Harled with red tile roof, swept low to E. Entrance to S.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: gatepiers to SE, pair of massive circular coursed rubble piers with rounded caps. Cast-iron gates. Pair of gatepiers to SW similar but more slender. Boundary wall to S and E, high rubble wall with long and short rubble coping. Wall recently breached to SW to form entrance to new house (2004).