Mount Melville

Paul Waterhouse c 1905. Mixed Scots and French 16th century

features. Three sides of court, single-storey and attic,

hammer dressed rubble with polished ashlar dressings and

chamfered margins, with central arch of several orders with

coat of arms over, flanking diagonal square turrets with side

lights. Piended roofs swept into angles of tall pavilion roof

over gate, elaborate wrought-iron finials with weathercock.

Right-hand section of facade has door and 2 windows

(bipartite on right) and 2-light masonry dormer with finial.

Left-hand section has tripartite, bipartite, similar dormer

and platformed dormer at higher level. Diagonal corner

buttresses. Pantiled roofs on shallow brackets, crowstepped

gables and central battered stacks. Court paved with setts,

4 garages, 2 doors and car bays to north with central

crowstepped tripartite dormer and segment-headed ventilators

to south 3 garage doors and L-plan double cottage, chamfered

doors, small ground floor windows. Three pairs of first floor dormerheads with ball finials, linked by oversailing arches.

Courtyard closed to east by wall with arched door in

finialled gablet. South range; external elevation has

advanced crowstepped end gables and 5 inner gablets

(bipartite centre). North range: external elevation <> for

left door at 1st floor