Description

Early 18th century with many later alterations. Long 2-storey

house (originally 2) in terraced pair with Ystrad House.

Harled and painted rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings,

chamfered arrises.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical. Piend-roofed full-height stairwell

added at early date, projecting off-centre to right with

small stair window and ball finials at angles; decorative

pheasant weathervane; low door by re-entrant angle on S return.

Windows flanking stairwell to left by re-entrant angle, with

further window blocked from former door at ground to left;

windows to both floors in outer bays. 12-pane glazing pattern, predominantly in sash and case windows. Coped stone end

stack and wallhead stack at rear. Ashlar coped skews. Grey

slates to pitched roof.

RETAINING WALLS AND PIERS: rubble coped rubble garden walls

to S, adjoined to house, with quadrants and pyramidally

coped rubble piers. Rigg wall to E.

Statement of Interest

Allegedly built to serve as factor's/yeoman's houses for the

Yester estate, and contemporary with James Smith's work on

the mansion. Windows have been enlarged and stacks renewed.

Ystrad House to N reflects more closely the probable original

form of the semi-detached pair, each with 2 doorways.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17794129

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide