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Latitude: 55.0533 / 55°3'11"N
Longitude: -3.3067 / 3°18'24"W
OS Eastings: 316622
OS Northings: 573980
OS Grid: NY166739
Mapcode National: GBR 5BB0.XB
Mapcode Global: WH6Y0.57NX
Plus Code: 9C7R3M3V+88
Entry Name: Knockhill
Listing Name: Knockhill House
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 342454
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10057
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200342454
Location: Hoddom
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Annandale North
Parish: Hoddom
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
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1777 dated portico but house could be several decades
earlier. Symmetrical tripartite-plan, 2-storey, 5-bay country
house with basement; additions - principally 3 ranges - all
19th century. Painted rubble with contrasting ashlar
margins and dressings; portico red ashlar. Piended slate
roofs.
MAIN BLOCK: rusticated quoins; steps with bottle nosings to
recessed central porch, engaged portico with 2 inner Doric
columns; narrow pediment over cornice; doorway and
sdielights in Venetian window arrangement - panelled door,
traceried fanlight; sash windows with 18-pane glazing to
ground floor windows with dropped cills, upper (12-pane)
windows, margins linked with eaves course: moulded deep
main cornice carried over all elevations; symmetrically
placed stacks; bell-cast roof. N elevation 3 bays with
?stair turret near centre.
ADDITIONS: canted and margined near full-height bay on E
flank; bow-ended single storey W wing: rectangular-plan
wing to NE with Venetian window central on 3-bay E
elevation.
INTERIOR: some cornice plasterwork; panelled doors in
architraves; timber and marble chimneypieces.
Inscription on portico "Too small for envy/for contempt too
great"; also initials "AJ" and "MB" and date. Recessed
entrance compares with Rammerscales House in Dalton Parish.
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