Description

1781-2(?). 3-storey gabled main block with single-storey
piend roofed wings of same depth, S. front dressed granite
5-window (1 blind at ground floor, 2 at 2nd) 1 door with
rectangular fanlight and 1 window each wing. N. front
3-window (W. windows blind) 1-window in wing, ground floor
harled, dressed granite, 2nd and 3rd; tripartite doorpiece
with semi-elliptical traceried fanlight, Semi-circular headed
openings in E. wall of E. wing and at attic in gables. Simply
treated interior with original woodwork, plain railed stair,
good chimneypiece at 1st floor. Modern garage entrance W.
wing and modern porch E. wing.

Statement of Interest

A group. The name Orrok was transferred from the Orrok's

family estate in Fife which had had to be sold.

John Orrok 'late captain of ships trading in the East and

West Indies' recovered the family fortunes in some degree and

bought the Colpna or Over Blairtown estate rechristening it

Orrok. The house bears large 'O's over the attic windows in the

gables and except possibly at the harled ground floor appears

to have been wholly built by him. See also Forbes and Taylor,

the letters of John Orrok (son of the above). The estate was

sold to R.S. Walker 1880.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17571487

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair