Description

Dated 1883, with later additions and alterations. Single storey and attic 3-bay stugged squared and snecked sandstone house with single storey wing projecting to NE to rear and further addition to re-entrant angle to rear. Stop-chamfered arrises.

SE ELEVATION: 3-bay. Boarded door with wrought-iron hinges to centre with gabled glazed porch with barge-boarding. Piended canted window in bay to left. Bay to right advanced and gabled. Tripartite window with bipartite window at 1st floor above; monograph and date stone above ground window.

NE ELEVATION: gabled; window at ground to outer right; carved plaque with the Hay motif set in gablehead.

WING PROJECTING TO NE: tripartite window at ground of SE elevation; advanced monopitch bipartite window at ground of NE elevation, narrow bipartite window in gablehead. Blank NW elevation with shouldered chimney breast now truncated at wallhead.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows, originally lying-paned (only surviving to SW elevation). Flag roof with exposed raft beams and ornamental bargeboarding to gables, with timber finials. Gabled bipartite dormer window to NE elevation, bay to left and to NE elevation of wing; 2-pane skylight to centre of NE elevation. Slate roof to further addition to rear. Cream brick stacks to main house, with octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen , 1995.

GATEWAY: timber gate and pitched shingle-roofed canopy.

Statement of Interest

The house was formerly part of the Duns Castle estate.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56647775

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5