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House, still in use, built in the mid to later 18th century, probably of slightly different builds. It is a two and three-storey, U-plan town house of considerable quality. The south elevation faces Boyndie Street, but the main entrance front is reached from Kingswell Lane to the west. The Boyndie Street elevation is three-storey and attic, with a wide four-bay, south-facing street frontage, with a doorway squeezed between bays three and four. It is harled with painted ashlar margins, and has a simple corniced and moulded doorpiece with a six-panelled door. There are smaller and slightly different in size ground floor windows, regular first and second floor fenestration, with longer windows in the first floor and small square windows in the second. The outer windows are close to wallhead and the inner two within a centre tympan gable with a small centre attic light and apex stack. The main entrance front is probably from 1772. It is harled with ashlar margins and dressings. The three-bay main front (facing west) has a slightly advanced polished ashlar centre with a centre door, and rising as a large Venetian window in the first floor below pulvinated string course and shallow pediment breaking wallhead. The outer bays have long first floor windows. The remainder of the U-plan front is of irregular plan, with an advanced wing at the right (south), with a circa 1970 harled forestair to a later first floor entrance (rear of Boyndie Street). Ranges of slightly differing heights extend and return at the north. All are harled with ashlar margins. There is multi-pane glazing throughout in timber sash and case windows. The slate roofs have corniced end stacks, one of substantial size serving a former kitchen hearth, crowstepped gable survives at the east and the remaining gables have flat skews and moulded run-off skewputts. Inside, the main entrance/stair hall from the principal west entrance (probably 1772, Kingswell Lane entry), is linked by an arched lobby to an entrance hall, reached from the Boyndie Street doorway. It has fine plaster ceilings, with moulded cornices and a centre decorative detailing. There is an ornate moulded and decorated small cast-iron basket grate in the Boyndie Street hall, with a plain black painted ashlar hearth, also flanking panelled doors and stone flag floors. A wide stone cantilevered staircase rises to the first floor landing, featuring plain moulded risers with cluster finial and mahogany 'stick' balusters and polished handrail. A mezzanine landing is lit by long window. The drawing room, probably of 1772, has a high-ceilinged room that is lit at the west by a Venetian window, framed by fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals. There is similar detailing to a swagged corniced doorpiece with a moulded door frame and raised and fielded six-panelled door. Other features include a corniced and swagged chimneypiece with a carved thistle and rose, a fine pale striated grey and white marble slip frame to a modern brick lined hearth, and 18th century raised and fielded panelled doors and window shutters. The former kitchen has a wide segmental-headed hearth with ingleneuk. High rubble walls enclose the grounds.
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