Description

William Robertson, Architect, Elgin, 1841. Symmetrical 2-
storey house with wide 3-bay NE gabled entrance front,
symmetrical return gables and 2-storey, 2-bay rear wing.
Mid 20th century small addition in S re-entrant angle. All
harled with tooled ashlar margins. Centre door masked by
projecting gabled porch with 1861 datestone above shallow
segmental headed entrance with double leaf panelled door.
Outer bays with 2-storey window projection; tripartites in
ground floor, bipartites in 1st floor, the centre under
small stilted gablet. Pair similar bipartites in ground floor
north elevation of rear wing, with 1st floor windows under
similar gablets. Thick centre wooden mullions to all 2- and
3-light windows; similar detailing to all single windows.
Lying-pane glazing, margined in all larger windows. Paired
tapering and corncied ashlar stacks set diagonally on
facetted rectangular bases; similar single centre ridge
stack. Shallow pitched slate roof with projecting eaves;
plain bargeboards with pronounced blocked joist detailing;
wooden ridge finials to gables. Interior; curved centre rear
stair with simple cast-iron balusters. Plain ceiling moulded
cornices in ground floor public rooms.

Statement of Interest

Advertisement for tender for "Brin Cottage". House similar to

(now somewhat altered) Innismount, Aludearn, former school

and schoolmaster's house designed by William Robertson, also

in 1841. Porch at Tomintoul House probably dates from 1841

with later (1861) datestone and E.C.S.W for E.C. Sutherland

Walker, who purchased Brin Estate c.1860 and built Brin House

nearby, after which Brin Cottage was probably re-named

Tomintoul, the name under which it appears on 1st ed. OS.

1871.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17826796

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