Description

1870. Baronial. Single storey and attic rectangular block.
Squared rubble with ashlar dressings. All elevations
asymmetrical each having advanced outer bays with
crowstepped gables. North and south have central gables.
East has advanced centre gable with segmental pend and
skews with kneelers some apex stacks, some facetted and
paired. Variety of doors and windows, latter often
transomed and mullioned. Some raised through eaves and
gabletted. One canted window with battlemented parapet
to left gable at east. Upper windows of gables round
headed or with round pediments. 2 circular, 2-storey
towers with conical slate roofs one at south east corner
with gabletted window raised through eaves. Other in
re-entrant angle to west elevation; both have doors that
to south-east architraved and segmentally headed with
string course raised over; that to west flat-headed but
in semi-circular tympanum and string course raised
over. Slate roofs to rest with ashlar stacks and ridge
roof ventilators, one on south elevation being square with
louvres and ogival lead cap and wind vane. Bargeboarded
dormer also to south. To east and west timber framed
gables end of roof covering centre block with slates and
skylights. Horsehead finials to gables.
4 ashlar gatepiers with diamond-facetted rustication.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17841922

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Recommended Books

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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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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings