Boundary Walls And Gatepiers, 3 Tinto Road Including Water Garden

George Eadie & Sons for stained glass artist W G Morton. Dated 1912. 2-storey 3-bay gabled Arts & Crafts villa incorporating studio and Morton stained glass. Squared and coursed cream sandstone to ground floor of principal elevation. Remainder white-painted harl with predominantly cream sandstone ashlar margins. Base course, band course, stone mullions, overhanging eaves.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: principal (West) elevation with hoodmoulded and keystoned low wide entrance to ground left with hanging copper sign, 'Lymnerscroft', and 2-leaf timber door. Above, tripartite dormer breaking eaves. To outer right, 5-light bowed window to ground with tripartite window in gable above. Later flat-roofed garage extension recessed to far right.

Small pane leaded casement windows, some with stained glass detailing (see Notes). Graded grey slates, red clay ridge tiles. Some corniced gable and ridge stacks. Predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: good quality Arts & Crafts decorative scheme with particularly fine stained glass by Morton. Fireplaces mostly removed or replaced. Timber panelled entrance hall with inglenook style recess. Large north-facing studio to ground floor with inglenook fireplace incorporating seating and simple stained glass panels. Studio window with simple heraldic panels to upper lights with thistle motif. Long canted tripartite stair window with impressive central stained glass mermaid panel. Stairwell with canted timber oriel window with simple stained glass heraldic panel. Timber doors to 1st floor with oval panels of stained glass flowers: lilies, water lilies, roses, thistles, and violets.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: pair of cream ashlar square-plan gatepiers with stepped pyramidal caps to W. To N, stepped wall of coursed bull-faced concrete blocks.