Description

Early 19th century, perhaps incorporating earlier fabric; porch added soon after. 3-storey and basement 3-bay house with broad deep basement recess. Coursed cream sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins; cill course to 1st floor, shorter 2nd floor windows under ashlar eaves course; overhanging eaves interrupted by wallhead stacks.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: basement area spanned by central porch, approached by splayed rubble walls with semicircular coping; basement with window under porch and flanking tripartite windows; band course above.

Corniced porch with pair of Tuscan columns in antis flanking boarded door with letterbox fanlight; return walls with single windows; flanking bays with Venetian windows in recessed shallow arch. Upper floors with regular fenestration.

E ELEVATION: blank apart from projecting gabled basement closet to right and 2nd floor window to far left; broad wallhead stack at centre.

N ELEVATION: 3 very irregular bays; shallowly bowed bay to left with tripartite windows to basement and ground and single windows above; at centre, enclosed timber bridge across basement area gives access to back door; 2 stair windows above; right bay blank with 2 small windows at 1st floor.

W ELEVATION: 2 bays flanking broad wallhead stack; blank basement; windows to each bay above.

4-pane timber sash and case windows (12-pane to rear); Venetian windows with Y-glazing; grilles to basement windows. Piended roof, grey slates; rendered stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

Remains of walled garden to NE.

Statement of Interest

There was a tower on this site, which was inhabited until the mid-18th century. The stables and walled garden are B Grouped with the house (see separate listing).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17836699

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)