Errol Park House

Alexander Johnston, 1875-77; builder Robert Laing. 2-storey, 6-bay, rectangular-plan, piend and platform-roofed Renaissance house with small enclosed inner courtyard. Stugged ashlar with banded quoin strips. Base and cill courses, dentilled eaves cornice and blocking course. Architraved, pedimented windows, keystones, bracketted cills. Stone margins.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: regular fenestration to 4 centre bays, windows to ground with semicircular-pedimented windowheads to centre and triangular to outer bays, 1st floor centre bays under broad pediment. Outer canted bays with tripartite window to each floor and flanking urn-finialled, full-height banded quoin/pilaster strips.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 7-bay asymmetrical elevation. Bay to left of centre with mutuled cornice to balustraded porch with steps flanked by stone dies, square outer and Ionic inner columns, keystoned segmental-headed doorpiece with 2-leaf panelled timber door and deep semicircular fanlight, single windows to returns; bipartite above giving way to broad finialled pediment. Further pedimented bay to outer left with tripartite at ground, balustrade and relief carved roundel flanked by single windows at 1st floor. Advanced bay to outer right with 2 blinded windows at 1st floor and wallhead stack. Single and bipartite windows to remaining bays, those to ground corniced and those flanking porch with pedimented wide-centre tripartites.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: unadorned elevation with variety of single and bipartite windows.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows; multi-pane glazing pattern to stair windows. Grey slates. Cavetto coped ashlar stacks with some cans. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings.

INTERIOR: fine original decorative scheme in place. Fine decorative plasterwork cornices and ceilings to principal rooms and stair hall. Keystoned, segmental-arched marble fireplaces to drawing room and anti drawing room with panelled dividing doors; carved timber fireplace to dining room (former library). Front hall with corniced doorpiece and steps leading to galleried stair hall with paired composite columns, fine carved (fumed oak?) chimneypiece with inset armorial panels and heavy semicircular pediment. T-plan, cantilevered, timber-balustered staircase with paired bipartite stair windows. Boarded dadoes, bell board and stone stair with cast-iron balusters to offices at rear.