Boundary Walls And Gatepiers, 3 Tinto Road Including Water Garden

This building is a 2-storey, 3-bay gabled Arts and Crafts villa, designed by George Eadie & Sons for stained glass artist W G Morton, and dated 1912. It features a ground floor made of squared and coursed cream sandstone on the principal elevation, while the upper part is finished with white-painted harl and predominantly cream sandstone ashlar margins. Architectural details include a base course, band course, stone mullions, and overhanging eaves.

The principal (west) elevation has a low wide entrance on the ground left, which is hoodmoulded and keystoned, accompanied by a hanging copper sign that reads 'Lymnerscroft' and a 2-leaf timber door. Above this entrance, there is a tripartite dormer that breaks the eaves. To the outer right, a 5-light bowed window is present on the ground floor, with a tripartite window in the gable above. A later flat-roofed garage extension is recessed to the far right.

The villa features small pane leaded casement windows, some of which include stained glass detailing. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and red clay ridge tiles, and there are some corniced gable and ridge stacks. The rainwater goods are predominantly cast iron.

Inside, the villa showcases a good quality Arts and Crafts decorative scheme, highlighted by particularly fine stained glass by Morton. Most fireplaces have been removed or replaced. The entrance hall is timber panelled and includes an inglenook style recess. The large north-facing studio on the ground floor features an inglenook fireplace with seating and simple stained glass panels. The studio window has simple heraldic panels with a thistle motif in the upper lights. A long canted tripartite stair window displays an impressive central stained glass mermaid panel, while the stairwell includes a canted timber oriel window with a simple stained glass heraldic panel. Timber doors leading to the first floor are adorned with oval panels of stained glass flowers, including lilies, water lilies, roses, thistles, and violets.

The boundary walls and gatepiers consist of a pair of cream ashlar square-plan gatepiers topped with stepped pyramidal caps to the west. To the north, there is a stepped wall made of coursed bull-faced concrete blocks.