Description

Mansion of various builds between late 17th and mid 19th
centuries. 1780-1813 S facing principal block of 2 storeys,
5 bays; granite rubble with ashlar granite dressings,
rusticated quoins and long/short detailing. To rear earlier
house and to W mainly single U-plan range forming hollow
square service court.
Principal block with centre door, flanking side lights and
rusticated ashlar dressings; Venetian window above and
3-window bowed bat rising full height to left. Single
off-centre piended dormer. Regular single bay return E gable
with ground and 1st floor windows, each with long/short
rustication and keystoned lintel in ground floor. Band
course; piended slate roof with ashlar granite modillioned
eaves.
To rear at right angles, late 17th- early 18th century house,
3 storeys, 7 bays (of at least 2 builds and heightened to
full 3 storeys in mid 19th century); rubble, tooled ashlar
dressings Off-centre door, narrow 1st and 2nd floor windows;
crowstepped gables; end and ridge coped stacks. Re-set 1598
datestone.
12-pane sash windows throughout. Projecting bowed stairwell
in rear re-entrant angle (1985) links main blocks. Interior:
some fine late 18th and early 19th century chimneypieces;
remnants of late 18th century plaster friezes.

Statement of Interest

Family home of Grants of Rothiemurchus. Name The Doune

derived from motte to rear of house. Re-set datestone of

1598 initialled PG for Patrick Grant taken from Dell of

Rothiemurchus, a jointure house with Muckrach Castle from

whence Patrick Grant came. The Doune presently (1985)

undergoing complete restoration, which has included

demolition of later 19th century water tower, porch and

removal of brattishing.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Doune of Rothiemurchus official website
• Wikidata Q17827670

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)