Description

William Leiper 1907. English traditional manner. Large
detached mansion house. 2-storey and attic snecked rubble
part harled, part half-timber; mullioned windows with
transoms at ground floor. Entrance front on E, gabled porch
set in finely sculptured architrave, small round arched
bipartite fanlight over, ball-finialled gable, 4 round-arched
lights on flank; SE corner bay 2-storey, upper half timber
with balcony roof and oriel feature; S front has centre
canted bay section through all floors, top stage corbelled
out with 2-light windows, broad-eaved conical roof with bell
cast. Section to right half-timber, 1st floor and attic with
broad-eaved twin gables, each with oriel, glazed lean-to
porch addition to left; W front has S canted bay, timber at
1st floor and above, cantilevered to square and gabled at
attic, drop pendants at angles; NW gabled projection with
half-timber gable, roof swept down into that of gambrelled
single-storey and attic back wing.

Statement of Interest

Fashionable early-late Victorian watering place based on the

mineral waters at Airthrey. Became a Police Burgh 1870.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17834382

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