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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