Building record MAB6768 - SOUTH VILLA, 41 MOSS STREET, ELGIN

Townhouse at 41 Moss Street, designed and built for Mrs Grant of Elchies by architect William Robertson in 1830.

Townhouse at 41 Moss Street, designed and built for Mrs Grant of Elchies by architect William Robertson in 1830. It is constructed with ashlar to the front, with finely tooled ashlar to the canted bays and coursed rubble to the flanks and to the two-storey, single-bay wing to the East, with polished ashlar dressings. The main building is a two-storey, three-bay villa, with two-storey canted bays projecting on the return elevations. The central entrance is fronted by a semi-circular portico with Greek Doric columns. There are two flanking windows with bracketted anthemion cornices, and similarly detailed first floor windows, which are pedimented at the centre. There is a shallow recessed wall face between the windows, and angle. 8, 9 and 12 pane sashes. There are original cast-iron railings over the portico and canted bay balconies. There are deep eaves to a shallow piended slate roof with paired centre chimneys. There are coursed and coped walls to Moss Street, with four monolith panelled gate piers and one pair of ashlar end piers, each having copes decorated with a Greek key pattern border and anthemion motif. There is a pair of cast-iron gates, coped rubble garden walls and a domestic ice house in the garden.

Period Notes
Built in 1830. Listed designation given on 26/01/1971.

BARTLAM, W. A., 2007, SOME ICE HOUSES IN MORAY, p.10-14 (Bibliographic reference). SAB3716.

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May 3 2019 12:07PM