Description

Probably William Burn, 1832. 2-storey, gabled house,
linked by single storey bays to 2-storey Estate Office on
falling ground. Stugged red sandstone, squared and
snecked with ashlar dressings; base course; chamfered
arrises to openings; stone mullions to bipartites.
S ELEVATION: symmetrical, 3 bays to house, with advanced,
full-height gabled porch at centre, corbelled to square at
1st floor tripartite doorway with mannered lintels, strip
fanlight and boarded door. Corbelled oriel with leaded
bays with hoodmoulded bipartites at ground and bipartites
breaking eaves at 1st floor in gabled dormerheads.
2 recessed bays to outer left with later bipartite window
and door, adjoined to 2, 2-storey bays of Estate Office,
slightly advanced to outer right; single windows at
ground and gabled dormerheads to 1st floor windows
breaking eaves, with blind slits in apex.
E ELEVATION: slightly advanced gable to left with
2 windows at ground, heavily corbelled rectangular oriels
with stone roofs to 1st floor bays, flanking blank panel;
2 linked, corbelled gablehead stacks. Lower wing with
bipartites to outer right bay with gabled dormerhead to
1st floor window.
W ELEVATION: 2 bays to Estate Office with valley of former
M-gable bridged between corbelled stacks. Hoodmoulded
windows to ground and 1st floor windows. Advanced
stack to house to E above single storey link. Entrance to
Office on N elevation.
N ELEVATION: pentice-roofed stone porch adjoined to house
gable. Small-pane glazing pattern to sash and case
windows. Grey slates. Gablet coped skews with consoled
skewputts. Coped drum stacks.
INTERIOR: winding stair with decorative cast-iron stair with
decorative cast-iron stair balustrade; panelled pine doors;
unusual plasterwork cornice; white marble chimneypiece
brought by William Flockhart from Rosehaugh (dem),
Black Isle.
STABLES: gabled single storey stable range to N, running
N-S, with stone as above, ashlar coped skews and
louvred ventilators to ridge of grey slate roof. 4 stable
doors to W side, with boarded doors and small-pane
fanlights; sliding machinery doors inserted in penultimate
bay to left.
PIERS, GATES AND BOUNDARY WALLS: square red sandstone
gatepiers to SW, with pyramid caps and coped quadrants.
Decorative wrought-iron gates.

Statement of Interest

Built as Factor's House. Date discovered in roof. Lady

Eleanor's Cottage to S, also by Burn, listed separately

(and similarly erected on site of former village of

Whittingehame). Terraced gardens.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17793665

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)