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

James Pearson Alison, 1892. 2-storey, basement and attic, square-plan, late Victorian villa with timber-framed Arts & Crafts porch and stair oriel, single-storey lean-to to NE, deep overhanging eaves and multi-gabled roof, set on a steeply sloping site. Squared, coursed, tooled yellow sandstone with droved ashlar dressings and chamfered margins. Base course to basement. Some multipartite mullioned windows, with transoms to principal ground-floor rooms. Roll-moulded finials to gables.

SE ELEVATION: 3 bays. Projecting chamfered timber, gabled, bargeboarded porch breaking eaves of steeply swept roof to left; tall stack in roof. 2-storey central bay with 2 windows at ground floor and timber-framed, canted, gabled stair oriel with stained-glass window above. 2-storey and attic, asymmetrically gabled bay recessed to right with short gablehead stack; single narrow window to lean-to at outer right.

NW ELEVATION: 2 bays. 2-storey, exposed basement and attic, gabled left bay with 2-storey canted window to lower floors, tripartite stone-mullioned window to 1st floor, and single narrow window in apex. 2-storey and exposed basement right bay with tripartite window at basement, bipartite window at ground and bipartite gabled dormer breaking eaves at 1st floor.

NE AND SW ELEVATIONS: Roughly 2 bays to NE with blank wall to right; left bay with timber-boarded door to projecting lean-to at ground floor; centre bay with early-21st-century timber porch offset to right at basement; tall central stack breaking eaves with gablets at base. 2 bays to SW: 2-storey and exposed basement, gabled left bay with 2-storey canted window to lower floors; 2-storey, lower asymmetrically gabled right bay with bipartite window at ground.

Stained-glass stair window; plate glass in timber sash-and-case windows elsewhere. Grey slate roof. Ashlar-coped, kneelered skews. Coped stacks with some tall octagonal buff clay cans and some circular red clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Geometrically patterned ceramic floor tiles to porch and entrance hall. Timber dog-leg stair with turned timber balusters, moulded timber handrail and simple urn finials to newels. 9-panel timber doors, decorative cornices, and timber panelling around windows to principal ground-floor rooms. 4-panel timber doors, plain moulded cornices and some timber boarding around windows elsewhere. Some timber and some cast-iron fireplaces.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATE AND STEPS: Snecked, squared rubble walls with ashlar cope to NW, NE and part of SE boundaries; geometrically patterned cast-iron gate to N end of NW wall; curved stone stair leading to terraced garden.

LAMP POST: Adjacent to drive to S of house. Dated 1894. Cast-iron with foliate capital.