Description

Circa 1800, with 1932-3 alterations and additions including garage, 6 men's rooms, sitting room and bathroom. L-plan, 2-storey classical stables with later car port wing to rear making U-plan Harled with granite ashlar dressings and base course. 1st floor windows square.

NE elevation: 7-bay. Advanced pedimented bay at centre, breaking eaves, with shallow segmental-arched carriage door opening at ground and round-arched window above. Iron lamp bracket above door. Cornice to pediment. Pedestrian door in bay flanking to right with letterbox fanlight; flanking bays to right widely spaced; regular fenestration. Bays to left with door at centre, with fanlight; regular fenestration, 1st floor window at centre blind. Gabled return elevations, window to each floor at centre of NW gable (rectangular-window at 1st floor).

NW wing: door with rectangular fanlight to left of NW elevation, slightly recessed from adjoining gable, window above and to each floor of flanking bay to right. Blank return gable to SW.

SW elevation: gabled timber, later addition set between car port and NW wing with irregular openings and doors.

Car Port: present in some form, presumably as coach house in 1867, probably rebuilt circa 1950, A Graeme Henderson, with mansard attic roof, abutting bank to rear. 8½-bay to courtyard, ground floor of continuous, square-headed carriage doors; 8 swept roofed dormers to attic. 3 attic windows to rear.

Small-pane glazing in sash and case windows, 2 pairs of casements. Graded grey/green slates with stone ridge and coped skews with angled skewputts. Boarded doors.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Birkhall with Summerhouse, Wendy House, Garden Gate and Terraces, Larders, Rope Bridge and Drive Bridge.

Dignified design, elevated by pediment entrance bay and particularly interesting in its evolution to accommodate motor transport, discreetly located in range to rear.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17771401

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