Description

Formerly dated 1762. Singe storey, rectangular-plan, Renaissance-style summerhouse, adjoining lower garden wall. Buff ashlar sandstone, rubble at sides and rear, stone slate mono-pitched roof.

FRONT ELEVATION: 2 open, keystoned round-headed arches with Doric pilasters, impost blocks, triglyph frieze, dentilled cornice; 3-course parapet attic with Aberdeen bond masonry, flat-coped with 3 rectangular banded ball finials on plinths, datestone at centre ?17–?.

SIDE ELEVATIONS: flat-coped skews; blank at left, window and small opening at right.

Statement of Interest

The 2 final digits on the datestone are now indecipherable but 1762 is shown on the sketch in MacGibbon and Ross. The sculpted stone showing the Guthrie arms and ?WG 1614? has been removed to Guthrie Castle, Angus. The summerhouse was restored by the present owner Mr France Smoor. In an A group with Gagie House, Walled Garden and Sundial, Gatepiers and Adjoining Walls, Outer Gatepiers and Adjoining Walls, Coach House/Stable, and Home Farm. See also NOTES for Gagie House.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17576019

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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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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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2