Description

Circa 1830, style of William Robertson. 2-storey house built
against slope, presenting symmetrical single storey E
entrance front as raised ground floor and symmetrical 2-
storey S garden elevation. Harled with extensive polished
sandstone dressings and margins.
Wide 3-bay E front with centre recessed porch with
pedimented and paired pilaster frontispiece. Panelled door
with narrow sidelights; aproned flanking windows, wide
giant angle pilasters; deep base course.
2-storey, wide S garden front with full-height ashlar canted
windows linked at raised ground floor by verandah supported
by slender pilasters.
Later flat roofed projecting single storey library wing
masks W front with barely recessed centre bay. Circa 1960
3-light bow window to W return library gable.
Various additions and alterations at rear.
Horizontal and multi-pane glazing; symmetrical coped ridge
stacks; shallow piended local slate roof with projecting
soffited eaves.
INTERIOR: restrained internal detailing. Top lit entrance
hall.
Intercommunicating sitting and drawing rooms in S side of
raised ground floor. Carved wooden chimneypiece with marble
slips in sitting room; similar (later insertion) in larger
drawing room.
Later wooden chinmeypiece (said to have come from Glasgow)
in library.

Statement of Interest

Said to have been property of Leslie's of Kininvie and built

for 2 Leslie sisters.

Library extension appears on 2nd ed OS (1902).

Unusual small henhouse with pigeon loft at rear of house.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17827518

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)