Bewlie House

Probaly by G Elwes, architect, 1937-38 (see NOTES). Indiosyncratic neo-Georgian country house, with Modern Movement references. 2-storey U-plan with 2-storey service wing and sympathetic 1960's addition. Concrete with minimalist detailing, sash and case windows (12-pane at ground, 18-pane at 1st), and steeply pitched grey slated French roofs, piended over main blocks, curved and sewpt over polygonal end bays. GARDEN (S) ELEVATION: 3 bays at main block, with taller windows at ground, basket arched dormer-headed windows breaking eaves of projecting wings and on outer return elevations.

3-bay returns (SW and SE re-entrant elevations) are blind, but for pair of roundels at wallhead; inner roundel glazed as porthole window, outer blind, with small pedestal for carving/bust at bottom of rim; wallhead rises as a plain parapet above eaves, with concrete blocking course and wallhead stacks to ploygonal bays.

Projecting polygonal bays; dormer-headed windows breaking deep cavetto eaves, rhone pipes idiosyncratically carried acrosss at eaves in front of 1st floor windows.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: 2 bay; single storey semi-circular addition at W built 1960, in the style of the house, with 18-pane sash and case windows.

N (ENTRANCE ELEVATION): 5-bay main block; single storey and 1st floor dormer headed windows breaking eaves; 3-bay centrepiece breaking eaves in plain concrete parapet; entrance in centre canted bay (door with multi-paned stair window above to N; blind flanks). Centre stair window 25-pane (9 and 15); 18-pane flanking windows at centrepiece; regular 12-pane sash and case windows to outer bays. Service court to left forming L-plan entrance court.

Interior not seen.

TERRACE WALLS; stone balustrade and dies to NW and S. Gateway to NE. GARDEN WALLS AND ENTRANCE TO S: possibly early 19th century, predating |Bewlie House, reconstructed during 1960s, with reused 19th century cast-iron urn finials and decorative wrought-iron gates with overthrow quadrant enclosing walls of grey whin rubble, heightened with rendered ?red sandstone presumably in 1960s, centered on house to N.