Glengarden, Bridge Of Gairn

Dated 1902. Large unusually-detailed single and 2-storey with attic and cellar, Tudoresque villa designed by and built for Swiss artist, Rudolf Christen, with fine little-altered interior, mock half-timbering over granite, horizontally-aligned multi-pane windows (close to eaves at 1st floor), former dining room window rising through both floors and 4-light dormer window with centre pediment. Pink and grey bull-faced granite with some Aberdeen bond below harl and timber. Deep grey granite base course to ground floor cill height, jettied 1st floor. Canted oriel window in rectangular frame. Timber transoms and mullions.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: all elevations asymmetrical. Principal SE elevation with broad advanced gable at right incorporating large corniced canted window at ground right and 5-light 1st floor window below relief-carved datestone in corniced panel at gablehead, timber canopied door in re-entrant angle to left. Full-height 4-light transomed French window to NE, now partly obscured by modern conservatory.

Small-pane glazing patterns in casement windows. Red tiled roof. Canted, bull-faced granite stacks with cans. Overhanging eaves and plain bargeboarding.

INTERIOR: good decorative scheme in place. Plain and decorative plasterwork cornicing, fine timber panelling and architraved doors with brass door furniture, marble and timber fire surrounds. Vertically-panelled screen door with coloured glass panel leading to full-height pilastered gallery (former dining room) with open-timbered roof, white marble fire surround with scallop detail and scrolled consoles, small gallery to W end with circular columns at ground and square columns at 1st floor. Timber dog-leg staircase with ornately plastered ceiling detail incorporating elliptical light with coloured leaded glass. Elaborate china wash hand basin to 1st floor bathroom.