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Latitude: 57.6121 / 57°36'43"N
Longitude: -3.2227 / 3°13'21"W
OS Eastings: 327048
OS Northings: 858671
OS Grid: NJ270586
Mapcode National: GBR L8DL.Y6S
Mapcode Global: WH6JG.GXMV
Plus Code: 9C9RJQ6G+RW
Entry Name: Blackhills House
Listing Name: Blackhills House
Listing Date: 9 November 1987
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 340571
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB8433
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200340571
Location: Elgin
County: Moray
Electoral Ward: Fochabers Lhanbryde
Parish: Elgin
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: House
William Robertson, 1837-8 with considerable additions and
re-modelling by A & W Reid, 1870 and 1920. 2-storey,
wide 3-bay house with 2-storey, 4-bay additions E (1870)
with some 1920 alterations and additions. Harled frontage,
rubble flanks and rear, ashlar margins and dressings.
Main house has centre door with corniced and pilastered
doorpiece flanked by narrow side windows. Centre 1st floor
window flanked by similar narrow lights. Ground floor
windows smaller than 1st. Shallow projecting pedimented
centre bay to N elevation, now with later canted 2-storey
window inserted. Canted bay to W gable. 12-pane glazing
survives in main front; mainly 2 and 4-pane elsewhere. Deep
bracketed eaves; 4 symmetrical panelled and corniced stacks;
shallow piended slate roof. E wing similarly detailed
with projecting centre bay and cast-iron balcony at 1st
floor on N elevation.
"Since (Blackhills) came into possession of Earl of Fife ...
a new and commodious mansion house, with suitable offices,
has been erected".
"Cottage for Blackhills" first designed and built with
entrance in raised ground floor over basement. Basement
revealed and new centre door inserted therein 1870.
Remains of beehive dovecot in garden.
Also Pictish symbol stone under stone shelter.
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