20 Hepburn Gardens

Gillespie & Scott, 1907-8. 2-storey and attic, 6-bay, large symmetrical Arts and Crafts style double villa sited along Hepburn Gardens now partly subdivided. Exposed red facing brick and harl with distinctive margined glazing pattern. Overhanging eaves.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: N (street) elevation: 2 central bays with regular fenestration, later box dormers to attic. Advanced flanking bays with wide segmental arched entrance with timber and stained glass door with wide sidelight and incorporated fanlight. Ironwork balcony above with central part-glazed timber door breaking eaves with semi-circular pediment. To outer bays piended roof section with paired bipartite windows to ground floor and oriel window to first floor.

S ELEVATION: 6-bay dominated by pair of polygonal-roofed, 2-storey, large bay window projections incorporating ironwork balcony to 1st floor with integral timber and glazed door with rectangular fanlight. To right (No 18) later 1- and 3-storey flat roofed additions. Box dormers to attic.

Multi-pane timber sash and case windows with horns. Predominantly margined glazing to upper sashes. Some multi-panes to lower section of predominant plate glass lower sashes. Some uPVC replacements and secondary glazing to lower left (No 18). Graded grey slates. Tall mid-pitch stacks with cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: (partly seen 2006). Good simple Arts and Crafts decorative scheme in place including 5-panel timber doors to principal rooms with finely carved to architraves. Simple geometric timber balustrades and handrail to staircases. Includes a number of simple timber chimneypieces with tiled inserts. Principal room to No 20 with timber beams and panelling.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped sandstone section of wall to N.