Description

Built in at least 4 stages. Country house, now incorporated in modern housing scheme and in use (1992) as Parks and Recreation Department Office. 2 storeys; mainly squared rubble, ashlar dressings, sash windows with horizontal glazing, slate roofs. General appearance is of a circa 1840 west-facing house in individual style of David Hamilton's 1820's-30's work (cf. Mosesfield), but lacking his quality of design; parapetted L-plan front, shallow castellated porch central, canted ground floor window to left, alongside, with 2 windows over; advanced gable to right, with angle shafts and finials, was originally end gable of south-facing 5-bay house which was extended to E by 2 bays in similar style to the original, presumably in 18th century (openings on S front also altered, windows all corniced, a 1721 skewputt probably relates to the original house, rather than to the 2-bay addition); to N flank of circa 1840 house, a late 19th century added square bay repeats details of W front and has iron-crested French roof. High quality neo-classical GARDEN HOUSE, set against garden wall to S of Blairtummock House; possibly a re-set porch or re-used fragments from a larger building; the high quality both of sculpture and of design suggests that the architect might have been Robert Adam. Yellow ashlar, architraved frame, Corinithian columns sculptured frieze, pediment, stucco panels within. There are also sculptured panels set above the garden wall, either side. GARDEN WALLS are rubble-built, 18th century in appearance and (19th century) brick-lined at E; curved corner at SE, iron railing at W.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17814428

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (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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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)