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Latitude: 56.2347 / 56°14'4"N
Longitude: -2.8113 / 2°48'40"W
OS Eastings: 349806
OS Northings: 704979
OS Grid: NO498049
Mapcode National: GBR 2Q.C4CY
Mapcode Global: WH7SK.SKH8
Plus Code: 9C8V65MQ+VF
Entry Name: Gibliston House
Listing Name: Gibliston House
Listing Date: 1 March 1984
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 330365
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB155
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200330365
Built circa 1820. Classical villa; symmetrical; 2 storeys
over raised basement, 3 bays, with bowed single storey over
basement bay on west; various extensions to north and to west
by Sir Robert Lorimer, Architect 1916-31. Original House is
ashlar, rock-faced at basement, rusticated to ground floor,
and polished at 1st floor. South elevation: ground floor
openings in shallow recessed segmental-arched panels;
tripartite windows with blind balustrades, central advanced
bay with pilastered doorpiece, fanlight and sidelights at
head of flight of splayed steps with screens added 1919. 1st
floor with central tripartite (blind outer lights), single
windows in outer bays. Band course over ground floor and
basement, string course between ground floor windows, cornice
and blocking course, latter raised centrally. 2 piended
dormers added 1919; symmetrically placed stacks and slate
roof. Extended to north by Sir Robert Lorimer: 3 bays to
harled north elevation: door with tall fanlight in lugged
architrave at right, bipartites to ground floor of lower,
advanced central and left bays.
Square, single storey, flat-roofed, harled study added at
north west corner 1927, simple rectangular conservatory
beyond against south wall of outhouse. Study has 2 tall
18-pane sashes to south elevation, single sash to west: single
tall stack.
2 sundials in garden.
Probably built for Robert Gillespie Smith of Gibliston
1776-1855.
Purchased by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1916, and still (1981)
owned by his family.
Comparable elevation drawing in David Hamilton collection at
Glasgow University.
House contains some furniture designed by Lorimer.
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