Wardlaw Hall, Kennedy Gardens, St Andrews

John Milne, dated 1865. Finely-detailed large asymmetrical multi-gabled Scots Baronial house, 3-storey with 1- and 2-storey wing and dominant 5-stage tower with corbelled and crenellated parapet prominently sited in Kennedy Gardens, now part of University Hall. Bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar margins. Distinctive use of crowstepped gables, corbelled conical-roofed bartizaned turrets, canted bay windows and stone dormerheads. Moulded architraves to windows.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: E (street) elevation; advanced round tower corbelled to square at top stage with tall 2-leaf 8-panel timber door with roll-moulded architrave. Decorative armorial panel dated 1865 to second stage flanked by architraved windows. Single central windows to 3rd and 4th stage of tower. Top stage with central star emblem below corbel course; turret to SW corner and stepped parapet. To right, 3-storey recessed crowstepped gabled bay. To far right, 2-bays with outer bay with pedimented dormerhead breaking eaves. Corbelled conical turret at NE corner. To far left, recessed 1- and 2-storey wing with later lean-to glasshouse with decorative multi-pane glazing, conical-roofed tower, and single crowstepped gabled bay.

Mixture of 8-pane and plate glass timber sash and case windows with horns. Graded grey slates; graded grey fishscale slates to conical roof turrets. Some ashlar coped gable stacks with cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: (partly seen 2007). Altered to form hall of residence for students of St Andrews University. Ground floor principal common room with simple timber and tile chimneypiece, 6-panel timber door and decorative plaster cornice and ceiling. Vaulted central corridor. Fine quality timber turned baluster staircase with timber handrails.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: low coped sandstone section of wall to SW curving inwards (E) incorporating bull-faced square-plan chamfered gatepiers with moulded caps.