Including Ancillary Structures And Boundary Walls, Ingleside, Buccleuch Road

Ingleside, Buccleuch Road

A roughly two-storey and attic Arts & Crafts house designed by James Pearson Alison in 1903. The building has an irregular plan and is distinguished by a projecting octagonal entrance tower to the north-east elevation, a timber-framed gable with two-storey canted windows facing north-west towards the garden, and a steeply pitched gabled roof with overhanging eaves. The walls are rendered with polished red sandstone ashlar dressings, with a first-floor cill course and eaves course applied only to the entrance tower.

The north-east (entrance) elevation features low, stepped side-walls with ball finials flanking two stone steps leading to a two-leaf, half-glazed timber-panelled door. The door surround is triple-chamfered with a Tudor arch and sits within the two-storey octagonal tower, which is corbelled out at first-floor level and topped with a finalled bell-cast roof. To the left is a shallow canted ground-floor window in a re-entrant angle, with an arched central light and vertical and horizontal glazing bars. To the right stands an advanced single-storey inglenook with a piend roof and a tall, tapered cross-plan buttressed stack that rises above the roofline.

The north-west (Buccleuch Road) elevation displays two two-storey canted bays with brick bases at each floor, supporting a projecting full-width timber-framed gable containing a five-light casement window. A recessed lower wing to the outer right contains a rectangular-plan lean-to greenhouse positioned in the re-entrant angle.

The rear (south-east) elevation has a central outshot with a piended platform roof at ground level. Above this is a large stair window with vertical and horizontal glazing bars and an arched central light, flanked by two single lights; two further lights sit in the apex of the gable, with raised cills throughout.

Windows are predominantly timber sash and case with plate glass lower sashes and six-pane upper sashes, though some metal casement windows with leaded lights are present. Shouldered and corniced stacks with red clay cans rise from the roof, which is finished in terracotta tiles and ridges. Cast-iron rainwater goods are fitted throughout.

Interior features include an Art Nouveau Lincrusta frieze in the porch, a timber stair with square newels and closed timber balustrade, and an inglenook in the drawing room. Principal ground-floor rooms have dentilled timber picture rails, three-panel timber doors, and some feature a timber chimneypiece. Plain cornices are found throughout, and wall covering in imitation of wood panelling (probably Lincrusta) is applied to the porch, hall, stairs, landing and one ground-floor room. The pantry includes timber-boarded cupboards.

Ancillary structures comprise a gabled garage and stable to the south of the house with tongue-and-groove timber panelling and interior pulleys, and an attached single-storey L-plan pitched-roofed block lining the south-west and south-east sides of a cobbled area. This block contains four storage rooms with timber-boarded doors and kennels with a low parapet wall, iron gate and railings. Both structures are rendered with grey slate roofs.

The boundary walls are constructed from roughly squared, tooled pink sandstone with grey sandstone cope along the north-west and north end of the north-east boundary. Circular terminal piers flank the two-leaf wrought-iron main gate to the north-east, with raised flush piers at intervals flanking wrought-iron railings. Tall flush ball-finalled terminal piers frame a wrought-iron secondary gate to Buccleuch Road. A rendered rubble wall with curved ashlar cope runs along the south-east side and south end of the north-east side, with a timber-boarded rear gate opening to the south-east.