Description

Reginald Fairlie, dated 1940, completed in later years.
2-storey and attic, butterfly-plan house, with service court
to NE. Harled with ashlar dressings, cill and lintel courses.
N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: slightly advanced, Colonially gabled
bay at centre with roll-moulded surround to doorway, in stone
panel, bearing HJY 1940 AM above lintel, and flanked by
windows; 2 1st floor windows and oculus in gable head.
Flanking bays at oblique angle, with irregular openings,
narrow at ground; advanced pavilion outer bays with window at
centre to each floor and small attic window.
S ELEVATION: tall, 5-sided projecting centrepiece with
polygonal roof, large windows at ground and 2 narrower
windows to centre at 1st floor. Flanking bays to N, 3 windows
to each floor to right and to left with doorway in outer left
bay and taller window above. Outer left advanced pavilion
detailed as S pavilions; that to right with raised stack and
lean-to service bays at ground.
Service court: formed of single storey passage wing, linked
to S end of E pavilion and piend roofed garage to outer NE
side. Quadrant wall of entrance court closing service court
to W.
12-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows. Grey
slates; ashlar coped stacks; Russian finial to polygonal
piend at S.
INTERIOR: 2-leaf doors and archways to the hall, otherwise
plain.
GARDEN WALLS AND GATEWAYS: harled, ashlar coped walls around
circular court at entrance front, with urn finials; gateway
at S of square section gatepiers with moulded caps and acorn
finials, flanking decorative cast-iron gates. Further
decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gates to garden. Coped
rubble parapet to entrance front at N with drum gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Strongly follows the designs of the Edinburgh architects,

John Kinross, and Robert Lorimer. It is a late essay in the

butterfly plan house which was pioneered around the turn of

the century. Gate lodge to N, designed in similar materials,

and contemporaneously, not included in current listing.

Gardens were simply landscaped and given appropriate

ornament.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17805155

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