Description

Circa 1850. 2-storey gabled farmhouse, with 2nd storey
breaking eaves. Red rubble sandstone with stugged
ashlar dressings and chamfered arrises.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay symmetrical; pediment to
doorway with decorative fanlight. Timber mullioned
bipartites flanking at ground and in smaller 1st floor
openings, set in gabled dormerheads.
N ELEVATION: pentice roofed projecting at centre and to
right, at ground, with irregular windows and doorway on
E return. 2 single windows in dormerheads as above.
E AND W GABLES: blank with projecting central gable end
stack with off-sets each bearing 4 diamond flues with
original cans retained.
Plate-glass glazing pattern. Crowstepped skews with
beak skewputts to all gables. Grey slates.
Rubble coped red rubble sandstone retaining wall to S.

Statement of Interest

Steading sited a few yards to W. Almost certainly

pattern book design, similar to Kirklandhill Farmhouse

in form (not inlcuded in current parish listings),

possibly by James Hannan, mason.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17801555

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)