Description

1782 or thereby, on N. axis of house. 4 square ball-capped
ashlar granite gatepiers with railings and monolith ball
capped footgates between Upper parts of central piers
dismantled 1968 (stones laid aside for re-erection).

Statement of Interest

A group. The name Orrok was transferred from the Orrok's

family estate in Fife which had had to be sold.

John Orrok 'late captain of ships trading in the East and

West Indies' recovered the family fortunes in some degree and

bought the Colpna or Over Blairtown estate rechristening it

Orrok. The house bears large 'O's over the attic windows in the

gables and except possibly at the harled ground floor appears

to have been wholly built by him. See also Forbes and Taylor,

the letters of John Orrok (son of the above). The estate was

sold to R.S. Walker 1880.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17775497

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)