Willowbush, 17 Abbotsford Road is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006. Villa.

Willowbush, 17 Abbotsford Road

WRENN ID
odd-keep-birch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 November 2006
Type
Villa
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Dated 1845. 2-storey and attic over cellar, 3-bay irregular-plan Gothic villa. Prominent advanced gable, stepped buttresses and projecting chimney with blind windows. Squared whinstone, snecked to sides and rubble to rear. Buff sandstone ashlar dressings, rendered in parts. Hoodmoulded openings.

FRONT (SW) ELEVATION: advanced gable to right, canted bay at ground floor. Central advanced gabled porch with pointed-arch doorway and fanlight with perpendicular tracery. Gabletted dormers to left.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows with some plate glass. Purple slate roof; pointed ashlar skews and moulded skewputts. Decorative timber snow-catchers. Corniced wallhead stacks. Cast iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers.

INTERIOR: a number of interior features survive. Gothic-arched inner door with decorative carved timber surround. Overdoor with quatrefoil containing stained glass image of a Gothic villa. Marble chimneypieces, elaborate plasterwork.

BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble boundary walls with semicircular coping.

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