Runic Cross Including Boundary Walls, Waverley Road

Robert Mathison 1871. 2-storey, 3-bay, asymmetrical, square-plan gothic style gabled villa with beaked stone crennellations to advanced windows and doorpiece. Sandstone ashlar with prominent vermiculated quoins to principal elevations; random whinstone rubble to N; painted render to rear (W). Base course and vermiculated eaves course. Dormers with slated cheeks and iron finials. Ornate floreate brackets to entrance hoodmould. Stop-chamfered mullions and window margins. Small piended-roof brick addition to rear.

Predominantly plane glazing in timber sash and case windows with smaller top sashes; some uPVC to upper floor and rear. 6-panel timber entrance door with plain fanlight above. Patio doors to rear. Graded grey slate roof; fish-scale slates to dormers. Stone skews with gableted skewputts and detail to mid skews. Corniced and canted rectangular gable end stacks with octagonal clay cans. Stone and iron finials.

INTERIOR: some good interior detailing survives including fine deep cornicing to principal rooms with carved plaster corbels. Fine turned timber stair with barley twist banisters.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GARDEN ORNAMENTS: tall random rubble boundary walls with rounded copes and small round-arched alcoves (see Notes). Various reclaimed antique stone ornaments incorporated into boundary wall and elsewhere in garden including stone font (see Notes).