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Latitude: 55.1072 / 55°6'26"N
Longitude: -3.5418 / 3°32'30"W
OS Eastings: 301735
OS Northings: 580289
OS Grid: NY017802
Mapcode National: GBR 39QD.00
Mapcode Global: WH5WC.KWNL
Plus Code: 9C7R4F45+V7
Entry Name: Tinwald House
Listing Name: Tinwald House
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 351124
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17238
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200351124
Location: Tinwald
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Lochar
Parish: Tinwald
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: House
William Adam, architect. Dated 1740. Classical mansion house; 2 storeys over raised basement. Polished red ashlar, channelled basement to front and rear elevations; rusticated quoins.
South west front: 7 bays, 3 inner bays slightly advanced and pedimented, with balustraded square perron: all openings above base course in lugged and keystoned architraves: pedimented doorway with pulvinated frieze (modern door), ground floor windows with aprons and 18-pane sashes, 12-pane sashes with bracketed cills above. Cornice; parapet, with urns, balustraded over outer bays. Symmetrically placed corniced stacks, piended and platform roof. 3-bay flanks each have full-height canted inner bay and pedimented porch alongside at basement level; 6-bay rear elevation has 2 inner bays advanced and pedimented.
Interior: damaged by fire circa 1946; reconstructed 1947 (dated on roof leadwork) to a simplified design, with partly altered plan.
Built for Charles Erskine
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