Broompark Day Nursery Including Boundary Walls And Gatepiers, 7 Broompark Circus

Possibly James Salmon or John Gordon (see Notes). Stair window dated 1867. Large impressive 2-storey eclectic Franco-Gothic former villa, now nursery, with dominant 3-stage entrance tower and high quality interior with many exceptional surviving features. Tooled ashlar with smooth margins. High quality stonework detailing. Chamfered openings with a variety of pointed arch, canted arch and square-headed window treatments. Base course.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: Principal (West) Elevation: off-centre tower with doorpiece (now painted cream) with flanking pilasters with foliate capitals, semicircular fanlight, cornice and balustraded parapet. 2-leaf timber panelled entrance door. 3-light window with bracketted cill with stone mullions to top stage. Overhanging bracketed eaves. Decorative ironwork cresting. To left: slightly advanced single gabled bay with full height 3-light canted bay windows, those to ground floor with pilastered mullions with foliate capitals. To right: re-entrant elevation of tower and blank bay now infilled to ground with later single storey flat roofed addition.

Predominantly plate glass timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: many high quality features remain. Deep skirting boards, shutters, some 4-panel timber doors, variety of marble chimneypieces (some now painted), elaborate cornicework, many with detailing matching exterior stonework treatment. Principal rooms with elaborate corniced doorpieces. Imposing entrance hall with coloured encaustic tiled floor, marble chimneypiece with intergral overmantle mirror with classical detailing including flanking engaged columns with foliate capitals. Pair of columns with foliate capitals flank entrance hall. Consoles with 3-D classical heads in roundels below. Decorative timber staircase with balusters now boxed in. Stained glass stair window dated 1867 and depicting figure with lyre. Further octagonal stained glass window above. 1st floor principal room with pointed arch 3-light window with slender engaged columns with foliate capitals dividing and flanking windows and the whole with flanking mirrored panels.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: to W (principal entrance elevation) pair of ashlar gatepiers with overhanging pyramidal caps with ball finials. Low decoratively tooled ashlar boundary wall with later railings. To S and E decoratively tooled ashlar boundary wall with flat coping to E and stepped flat coping to S with pair of square plan pyramidal capped gate piers.