Description

H-plan mansion dating variously between earlier/mid 18th
century and circa 1830. Mainly 2 storeys, harled with ashlar
margins; west garden front of coursed pinned rubble with
tooled ashlar dressings. U-plan entrance front, flanked to
east by 2-storey crowstepped wing dated 1742; linked to similar
wing by centre mid/later 18th century 3-storey, 4-bay block
and circa 1825 Roman Doric colonnade; large 1st floor windows,
small in 2nd floor, piended roof. Long west facing coursed
rubble garden elevation of different builds including two
2-storey, 3-bay blocks and large projecting bowed and
crenellated drawing room and dining room extension of circa
1800, with round-headed, key-stoned 1st floor windows and
centre ground floor glazed door.
Multi-pane glazing; later glazing to colonnade; eaves and
lintel bands in centre south facing entrance block; corniced
ridge and end stacks; slate roofs, ridge finials.
Interior: swagged decorative plaster cornice, panelled chair
rail and marble fireplace in bow-fronted west facing drawing
room; further fine plaster work in stairwell and drawing room
in centre, mid-18th century portion.
Garden walls: dated 1781; high harl pointed rubble garden walls
with ashlar copes.
Gate piers: (NH884800). Earlier 19th century; square chamfered
ashlar with moulded copes surmounted by stone balls bearing
diminutive obelisk finials. Similar end piers linked by low
squared rubble quadrants with ashlar copes.

Statement of Interest

Actually south-east entrance front and south-west garden front;

for simplicity referred to as south and west.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17830009

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  For the Record
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]