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Villa, still in residential use, built before 1899. It is a highly individual two-storey and attic, five-bay, L-plan villa constructed from roughly squared rubble with ashlar dressings and quoin strips, a base course, voussoirs, stone mullions and raked cills. The lower slope of the mansard had red fretted tiles with a grey slate roof above that has corniced and banded ashlar stacks with cans and ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts. The principal south elevation has steps up to a broad doorpiece with a Gibbsian surround in the centre bay containing a panelled timber door with flanking lights and a decoratively-astragalled semicircular fanlight under a swept mansard roof with a dormer window. Immediately to the east is a three-light, part-canted window under a similar dormer, adjoining an advanced full-height curvilinear gable at the outer east with an ogee-roofed, five-light canted/semi-octagonal window diminishing to a four-light window under a swept, ball-finialled pagoda roof. A curvilinear gabled bay to the west of centre mirrors the east, and slightly set-back bay at the outer east is a Venetian window at the ground-floor with some coloured glass, and a similar pedimented dormer above, as well as a low four-light horizontal dormer window with a centre pediment. There are a variety of elements to the north elevation, including a finialled bellcast-roofed polygonal entrance bay to the centre adjoining a curvilinear gable and an advanced wing at the outer east. Inside, there is decorative and moulded plasterwork cornicing, architraved panelled timber doors and picture rails. The fireplace in the dining room has been imported from the maid's bedroom. An encaustic-tiled vestibule leads to a part-glazed panelled timber screen door with a decoratively-astragalled top-light. Other features include a grand stairhall has a parquet floor (circa 1940), a fireplace, a dog-leg staircase incorporating timber balusters, urn-finialled square newel posts and pendant finials. A candelabra in the stairhall came from Urie House (NO88NE0050). The south-west ground-floor room is accessed through a passage and heavy green baize door, suggesting it may have been a smoking room, with a Venetian window incorporating a carved soffit, flanging columns and fluted reveals and a corniced timber fire surround. Stepped, semicircular-coped, squared rubble boundary walls have two sets of two-leaf ironwork gates to the south, with high coped rubble walls elsewhere. The first owner, Mrs Lizzie Lindsay Thomson Wood, commissioned the window depicting lilies (her favourite flower) that overlooks this house from Fetteresso Parish Church (NO88N0180).
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