Steps And Lamp Post, Gate, Including Boundary Wall, Parkview, Buccleuch Road

This is a late Victorian villa, built in 1892 by James Pearson Alison. The house is square in plan, with two storeys, a basement and an attic, and is situated on a steeply sloping site. It is constructed of squared, tooled yellow sandstone, with droved ashlar dressings and chamfered margins. A base course defines the basement level.

The south-east elevation has three bays. A projecting, chamfered timber porch with a gabled, bargeboarded roof breaks the eaves on the left-hand side, with a tall stack rising from the roof. The central two-storey bay has two windows at ground-floor level, and above, a timber-framed, canted, gabled stair oriel containing a stained-glass window. To the right is a recessed, asymmetrically gabled bay and a single narrow window incorporated into a lean-to extension.

The north-west elevation features two bays, with an exposed basement and attic. The left-hand bay is gabled, containing a two-storey canted window on the lower floors, a tripartite stone-mullioned window on the first floor, and a single narrow window in the apex. The right-hand bay also has two storeys and an exposed basement, featuring a tripartite window at basement level, a bipartite window at ground floor, and a bipartite gabled dormer breaking the eaves at first floor level.

The north-east and south-west elevations are roughly two bays wide on each side. The north-east side has a blank wall on the right, while the left has a timber-boarded door leading to a projecting lean-to at ground floor. The south-west side includes a timber porch, offset to the right at basement level, a tall central stack breaking the eaves with gablets at its base, and a two-storey canted window on the lower floor of the left-hand bay, and a lower, asymmetrically gabled right bay with a bipartite window at ground level.

The house has plate glass in timber sash-and-case windows, and a grey slate roof. Ashlar-coped, kneelered skews are present, along with coped stacks, some with tall octagonal buff clay cans and others with circular red clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also a feature.

The interior includes geometrically patterned ceramic floor tiles in the porch and entrance hall. A timber dog-leg staircase is featured, with turned timber balusters, a moulded timber handrail, and simple urn finials to the newels. Other interior details include 9-panel timber doors, decorative cornices, timber panelling around the windows in the principal ground-floor rooms, 4-panel timber doors, plain moulded cornices, and some timber boarding around windows elsewhere. Fireplaces are a mix of timber and cast-iron.

The boundary wall is constructed of snecked, squared rubble with an ashlar cope to the north-west, north-east, and part of the south-east boundaries. A geometrically patterned cast-iron gate is at the north end of the north-west wall. A curved stone staircase leads down to a terraced garden. A cast-iron lamp post, dated 1894 and featuring a foliate capital, is located adjacent to the drive to the south of the house.