Description

John Rhind 1876-78, snecked rubble with ashlar dressings.
L-plan with 2-storey main block and 1 storey and attic
service block. Entrance front of main block 3-bay with
slightly advanced centre with round-arched doorpiece;
right bay slightly further advanced than centre; all 3
bays gableted; Elizabethan pediments at 1st floor windows;
at right of main block, crenellated 1-storey screen wall
linking to circular tower. At other fronts 1st floor windows
with gableted dormerheads. Bowed corners corbelled to square
just below eaves level. Modern glazed addition at south.
Lavish interior with impressive stairhall. Dining room
walls covered with painted tapestries, copied from
Gobelins tapestries of History of Esther, formerly in Castle
Rosque and cut to fit their present position.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17831426

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)