South Villa, 41 Moss Street, Elgin

William Robertson, dated 1830. Ashlar to front, finely tooled

ashlar to canted bays and coursed rubble to flanks and to

2-storey, 1-bay wing to E: polished ashlar dressings.

2-storey, 3-bay villa with 2-storey canted bays projecting

on return elevations. Centre entrance fronted by

semi-circular portico with Greek-Doric columns. 2 flanking

windows with bracketted anthemion cornices, similarly

detailed 1st floor windows, pedimented at centre. Shallow

recessed wallface between windows and angle. 8-, 9- or

12-pane sashes; blind boxes; original cast-iron railings over

portico and canted bay balconies. Deep eaves, shallow

piended slate roof with paired centre chimneys.

Coursed and coped walls to Moss Street with 4 monolith

panelled gate piers and one pair ashlar end piers, each

having copes decorated with Greek key pattern border and

anthemion motif. Cast-iron gates.

Coped rubble garden walls.

Domestic ice-house in garden.