Description

William Burn, architect. Built 1834, minor alterations 1912 by Barbour and Bowie. Large, asymmetrical mansion house, Jacobean; mostly mullioned and transomed windows, some canted or projecting, gables with slits or escutcheons, kneelers and ball finials; dormer heads finialed, with scrolled pediments. Plain, extensive service range and outbuildings to west lower (and partly single storey) with courtyard. Stugged red coursers, polished dressings. Entrance at west end of north wall, doorcase ornamented with ball finials and strap-worked pediment: corbelled 1st floor oriel to left with ornamental gable: conical-roofed tall, narrow turret recessed either end of north elevation. Additional door in re-entrant angle between west and south ranges. String between floors. Stacks mostly grouped, corniced diamond flues; roofed with graded slates. Courtyard ranges with plain gabled dormer heads. east-facing segmental-arched cart opening. Interior: some ornamental cornice plasterwork and white marble chimney pieces with classical detail in principal ground floor rooms; main stair with wrought-iron balustrade presumably by Barbour & Bowie.

Statement of Interest

Unusual trough (? early 18th century) with lion head mask

against south wall. Keystone and pedimented stone re-set

in courtyard.

External Links

• Wikidata Q17808381

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