Lindsaylands House

Lindsaylands House dates from 1869 and was designed by William Leiper, incorporating a pre-existing, simpler house. It is a two-storey early Arts and Crafts house with an irregular plan. The exterior is of snecked rubble, with a base course.

The garden elevation features a semi-octagonal projecting bay with jerkin-headed windows, gablets, and a pyramidal roof. This is flanked by a two-bay wing to the left, featuring a canted chimney stack and a gablet dormer. A timber framed loggia, now glazed, is located in the re-entrant angle. To the right is a set-back bay with a chimney stack, a timber-framed porch, and a cloakroom also in the re-entrant angle.

The southwest elevation is gabled, with a central bay featuring a canted window on the ground floor and a tripartite window above. All windows are mullioned and transomed. To the left are a pair of bipartites on the ground floor, also mullioned and transomed, with a gabletted semi-dormer above. A single chimney stack is located to the left. A plain, earlier range, in two sections (two and three bays respectively), extends beyond this. The side of the semi-octagon is plain.

The northeast elevation shows a wing with a rectangular bay on the ground floor, containing a tripartite, jerkin-headed, mullioned and transomed window, which reduces to a canted bay above, set within a gable. A bipartite window is to the left, with a small window above. A plain gable of the earlier house is to the right, alongside the side of the semi-octagon, with a linked gablet and chimney stack.

The roof is slated, laid in bands, with open eaves, projecting rafter and purlin ends. Chimney stacks are in four stages, with an engaged octagonal top level.

The original, simpler house is on a T-plan, harled with rendered margins. It has a stair tower in the re-entrant angle and ashlar chimney stacks with moulded copes.

The interior is ornamented in a style by Leiper. The house was built for J M Little.

Lindsaylands House is one of a pair of Leiper’s early Arts and Crafts houses; its companion, Redholm in Helensburgh (now Westermillig House), is slightly larger and more elaborate. It forms part of a B Group.