Description

Dated 1873, possibly Alexander Ross, Inverness. Single
and 2-storey hollow square with 5-bay NE 5-bay entrance
front and long SE range now a dwelling house. Tooled rubble,
tooled ashlar dressings. Slightly advanced gable centre bay
with segmental-headed archway entrance to inner court under
long louvred and gabletted clock tower; missing clock faces;
long Gothic cast-iron ridge brattishing with apex
weathervanes. Centre archway linked to 2-storey gabled outer
bay by single storey bays.
Irregular 6-bay SE frontage with centre entrance sheltered
by modern glazed sun porch; 4 piended dormers break wallhead.
Inner court with stabling for 4 horses and 2 carriage
houses.
Varied glazing. Coped wallhead and truncated end stacks;
slate roofs.

Statement of Interest

Plaque above entrance arch dated 1873 and initialled E DD

and P DD for Edward and Pheobe Dunbar Dunbars.

Stables served Birchfield, the Rothes home of the Dunbar

Dunbars (also of Kinloss, Moray) designed by Alexander Ross

in 1869, destroyed by fire and re-built (probably also by

Alexander Ross) in 1893. Birchfield now the Rothes Glen

Hotel.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17827906

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments