Historic Scotland - Stewarton

aised quoins. Broad, den-tilled eaves. Raised, plain architraves. Decorative
carved apron panels with car touches to 1st storey bay window. Bipartite
windows with stone nrul1ionsto left. Porch in re-entrant angle with Corinthian column and
bracketed cornice. Part-glazed timber entrance door with sidelights and firm light above.
Predominantly replacement plate glass timber sash and case windows.
Shallow pi-ended roof with grey slates. Conical roof with iron filial to bowed bay.
INTERIOR:
Was last (seen 2008). Good, decorative interior with original room plan
largely extant. Dog-leg timber staircase with timber balusters and timber
banister and large, 2-light, decorative coloured glass stair window with floral
designs. 6-panel round-arched timber doors with round-arched architraves.
Several marble chimney pieces. Decorative plaster cornicing.
GATEPIERS: pair of square-plan gatepiers with stepped base, nook shafts, pedimented
copes and ball finals.
REFERENCES:
2nd Edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1894-6. Other information courtesy of owner.
NOTES:
Ashbank is a good example of a little-altered Victorian villa with a good
quality interior. It retains its original setting within large landscaped gardens.
Stewarton has relatively few large villas set within their own grounds dating
from this period and the quality of the decorative features sets it apart.
Following the style of well-to-do merchant is villa's laid out in Glasgow, S suburbs in the
later 19th century, Ashbank, with its bowed bay with low relief carved panels, would have
been aspirational and the height off cushion when constructed.
The land the house was built on was feuded in 1880 and the house is likely to date from
soon after this time. There is a date of 1881 carved into one of the stones on the base
course on the East elevation. It is thought that the house may have been built for a pork
butcher in the town.
List description updated as part of resurvey of Stewarton Burgh, 2009.
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