Description

Mid 18th century. Symmetrical 2-storey, attic and basement house with flanking single storey pavilions linked by quadrant corridors. Harled walling, raised painted margins and angles.

N elevation: steps with wrought-iron handrail over basement to margined doorway, panelled door with fanlight. Flanking door, single light windows. 3 single light windows to 1st of smaller dimensions. All sash and case with 12-pane glazing. Eaves cornice, pair of gabled timber later 19th century dormers.

S elevation: all single light windows. To centre 20th century addition; projecting harled full-heigtht bay, brick built, piended slate roof. Both elevations with moulded eaves cornice, end skews with skewputts. Tall coped end stacks with thackstanes, sandstone ridge, good graded slate roofs.

Pavilions: curving quadrant corridors with moulded eaves cornice and single basememt windows to single storey gabled pavilions, original 3-bay fronts, some alterations especially to rear elevations. Single windows with painted margins, end skews, end coped stacks, good graded slate roofs. Rear of E pavilion with large vehicle entrances.

INTERIOR: most doors and doorcases original, most shutters and some panelling and chimneypieces survive, good quality 18th century work.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17570447

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)