Railings And Gatepiers

c1868 with later additions. 2-storey and attic over basement, 4-bay extensive L-plan villa. Prominent bargeboarded gabled bay and turret-roofed canted bay. Squared rusticated buff sandstone with smooth ashlar dressings. Base course, band course at first floor level. Corbelled stack to SE wall, Mullioned and transomed windows to sides and rear. Chamfered surrounds.

GARDEN (SW) ELEVATION: asymmetrical. Canted bay to outer left. 3-storey bargeboarded gable-fronted bay to outer right with chamfered corners and tripartite windows. Tripartite pedimented timber-fronted dormers.

ENTRANCE (NE) ELEVATION: projecting ashlar doorway in re-entrant angle. Irregular fenestration; tripartite and quadripartite mullioned and transomed windows. Prominent stair window. Projecting service block on north corner.

Predominantly plate-glass timber sash and case windows, with some fixed light stained glass windows to entrance elevation and multi-pane upper lights to dormers. Purple slate piended roof with clay ridges. Corniced ashlar wallhead stacks; corbelled projecting stack on SW elevation.

INTERIOR: much of decorative scheme has survived in good condition (2005). Formal entrance hall, panelled to dado height, with elaborate canopied timber chimneypiece and Gothic stair arcade, also featured in upper stair. Balustraded stair of turned balusters and elaborate fretwork, with carved foliate newels. Geometric stained glass stair window with figurative painting. Several rooms retain elaborate plaster cornices, many above later ceilings. Principal dining room has trefoil-headed windows, with geometric stained glass. Panelled timber doors throughout.

BOUNDARY WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATEPIERS: squared sandstone and whin rubble boundary walls with ashlar copes. Decorative wrought iron railings. Octagonal gatepiers with bellcast capstones.