Description

Later to late 19th century. U-plan single storey stable court with cottage, stables and garaging. Square and snecked cream sandstone rubble; stugged ashlar dressings, stop-chamfered arrises; overhanging eaves, exposed rafters.

S RANGE: cottage/lodge. Outer elevation with broad projecting canted bay to left with window to each face and piended roof; gabled stone porch set obliquely in re-entrant angle to right; boarded door with fanlight in pointed-arch frame, blank shield above; window to centre bay; broad slightly advanced gabled bay to outer right, with bipartite window at centre and blank shield above. 3-bay courtyard elevation with door at centre and flanking windows. W gable with narrow window at ground and apex stack.

E RANGE: outer elevation with low single storey range to left containing 4 windows; tall gable of stable to right with window at ground and open wooden steps to hay loft door. Courtyard elevation with 3 segmental-arched openings; left one open with door behind, centre and right with 2-leaf boarded garage doors.

N RANGE: stable with hay-loft above. 2-storey outer elevation with 4 square windows. Courtyard elevation with segmental-arched opening to stables at centre, door to right and window to left; later single storey lean-to added to left. 2-storey W gable with window to both floors. Cast-iron rooflights.

4-pane timber sash and case windows (plate glass to bipartite window). Grey slates, coped stugged ashlar stacks.

Statement of Interest

The complex is almost entirely unaltered and presents its decorative

S front to Hunthill house, the drive to which passes along the E range of the court; the cottage therefore also serving as a lodge. It is B Grouped with the house.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56619925

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings