Description

Circa 1700, 2-storey, 5-bay mansion with early 19th
century wings adjoined at right angles to probably
earlier wings added to gable end elevations, and
forming entrance court. Rubble with ashlar dressings;
pink harling; chamfered arrises to windows.
SE ELEVATION: circa 1700 block of 5 symmetrical bays.
Centre bay breaking eaves in ogival gabled dormerhead
with scrolled skewputts, gablehead stack and window;
lugged and roll-moulded doorpiece with swan-neck
pediment cradling cartouche; 2-leaf studded doors.
Windows in flanking bays at ground and in each bay a 1st
floor. Early 19th century piend-roofed wings at right
angles from lower 2-storey original wings both blank on
courtyard returns; full-height, piend-roofed canted
window in gable to wing to left; 2 windows to each floor
of wing to right.
NW ELEVATION: near symmetrical arrangement to original
house; ogival wallhead gable repeated at centre with
stair window below; 2 ground floor windows in bays to
right, 1 to left, with 1st floor windows in bays
flanking centre. Lower piend-roofed wings, flush with
earlier elevation, probably earlier than taller wings
projecting from SE elevation. Mid 19th century, 2-storey
piend-roofed addition to NE, with service entrance.
NE elevation with lean-to addition at ground in re-
entrant by later block.
12-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows. Grey
slates; ashlar coped skews with scrolled skewputts to
original house, and coped end stacks; decorative cans.
WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rubble retaining walls with semi-
circular coping and grey ashlar piers with moulded
cornices and pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

Decorative wrought-iron balustrade to winding stair.

Former 18th century coach house and stables to E, and

steading of 1858 further to E, not included in current

listings; the grieve's house is listed separately. Name

derived from original owners, the Liestons: the Menzies

of Castle Menzies owned the estate from 1829-45, when

the SPCK, took the house as an investment. It returned

to private hands in 1921.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808443

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6