Description

Large late 19th century rambling 2-storey and attic house,

with much altered 1800 2-storey and attic, symmetrical 3-bay

house as central portion. All harled with tooled and polished

ashlar dressings and margins. Near symmetrical south front with

former centre entrance (as window) in bracketted corniced

doorpiece with decorated entablature and engaged Ionic

columns; coat of arms rests on cornice. Flanking ground and

1st floor tripartites; tall centre crowstepped gable with

flanking dummy corbelled bartizans with blind cruciform arrow

slits and conical roofs. Centre 3 bays flanked by advanced

gabled 2-storey wings with 4-light windows in ground floors and tripartites in 1st; rounded ground floor angles, with corbel

detailing and string courses above. Long west elevation with

advanced near centre gabled bay with main entrance in

hoodmoulded Tudor arch and with oriel above. Angle drum

tower rises 3 storeys at SW, terminating in conical roof

with cast-iron weathervane. Mainly 2-pane glazing with

multi-pane upper lights.

Various rear extensions mask base of original projecting

semi-circular stair well rising into piended bowed roof.

Corniced end and ridge stacks; crowsteps; slate roofs.

Statement of Interest

Mackenzie coat of arms above former centre entrance. Small

datestone and separate set of initials set each above outer

bay 1st floor windows of centre block, one inscribed MDXXX and

the other I MK M MK.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56621107

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)