Errol Park House

Errol Park House is a large Renaissance-style house constructed between 1875 and 1877 for Alexander Johnston, with Robert Laing acting as builder. It is a two-story building with a rectangular plan, featuring a piend and platform roof and a small, enclosed inner courtyard. The house is built of stugged ashlar with banded quoin strips, and incorporates base and cill courses, a dentilled eaves cornice, and a blocking course. Windows are architraved with pediments, keystones, and bracketed cills, all with stone margins.

The south-east (principal) elevation presents a regular fenestration pattern across the central four bays. Ground-floor windows in the centre bays have semicircular-pedimented windowheads, while the outer bays have triangular pediments. A broad pediment tops the center of the first floor. The outer bays are canted, each featuring a tripartite window on both floors, flanked by full-height, banded quoin/pilaster strips topped with urn finials.

The north-east (entrance) elevation is asymmetrical, with seven bays. A central bay to the left features a mutuled cornice above a balustraded porch with steps flanked by stone dies, square outer columns, and Ionic inner columns. The doorpiece has a keystoned, segmental-headed timber door with a deep semicircular fanlight. Single windows are positioned to the sides of the porch returns, with a bipartite window above, all beneath a broad, finialled pediment. Another pedimented bay is to the outer left, featuring a tripartite window on the ground floor, a balustrade, and a relief-carved roundel flanked by single windows on the first floor. An advanced bay to the outer right has two blinded windows at the first floor level, with a wallhead stack. The remaining bays incorporate single and bipartite windows; those on the ground floor are corniced, and those flanking the porch feature a pedimented, wide-centre tripartite.

The north-west (rear) elevation is largely unadorned, with a variety of single and bipartite windows.

The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing, though stair windows retain a multi-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates. Stacked chimneys are of cavetto-coped ashlar and include some cans. Cast-iron downpipes feature decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings.

The interior retains a fine original decorative scheme. Principal rooms and the stair hall feature decorative plasterwork cornices and ceilings. The drawing room and anti-drawing room have keystoned, segmental-arched marble fireplaces with panelled dividing doors, while the dining room (formerly a library) has a carved timber fireplace. The front hall includes a corniced doorpiece and steps leading to a galleried stair hall with paired composite columns, a carved (fumed oak?) chimneypiece with inset armorial panels, and a heavy semicircular pediment. A T-plan timber-balustered staircase with paired bipartite stair windows is cantilevered. The offices at the rear have boarded dadoes, a bell board, a stone stair, and cast-iron balusters.