Uplands, 15 Abercromby Drive, Bridge Of Allan

William Leiper 1907. English traditional manner. Large

detached mansion house. 2-storey and attic snecked rubble

part harled, part half-timber; mullioned windows with

transoms at ground floor. Entrance front on E, gabled porch

set in finely sculptured architrave, small round arched

bipartite fanlight over, ball-finialled gable, 4 round-arched

lights on flank; SE corner bay 2-storey, upper half timber

with balcony roof and oriel feature; S front has centre

canted bay section through all floors, top stage corbelled

out with 2-light windows, broad-eaved conical roof with bell

cast. Section to right half-timber, 1st floor and attic with

broad-eaved twin gables, each with oriel, glazed lean-to

porch addition to left; W front has S canted bay, timber at

1st floor and above, cantilevered to square and gabled at

attic, drop pendants at angles; NW gabled projection with

half-timber gable, roof swept down into that of gambrelled

single-storey and attic back wing.