Muirpark House, Muirpark Avenue, Renfrew is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 February 1996. Villa.
Muirpark House, Muirpark Avenue, Renfrew
- WRENN ID
- nether-pavement-summer
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1996
- Type
- Villa
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Date perhaps second quarter of 19th century. Villa of extremely unusual design, a centralised plan composed in a strictly symmetrical formula of interlocking hexagon shapes. An "ideal" design, influenced by French Enlightenment architects such as Boulee (1728-99) or Ledoux (1736-1806), whose work often used a similar, simple geometry.
Facades composed of splayed, canted bays; 2 storeys, ashlar-faced to south west front (remainder rubble, ashlar dressings), slate roofs, chimney flues (probably cut-down stacks) over internal angles. Centre hexagon is top-lit over the stair.
Original sash and case windows altered perhaps c.1900 (with multi-paned top sashes). Modern roller shutters fitted to ground floor openings. One angle infilled by low range; two modern extensions.
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