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Latitude: 55.5585 / 55°33'30"N
Longitude: -2.4691 / 2°28'8"W
OS Eastings: 370508
OS Northings: 629521
OS Grid: NT705295
Mapcode National: GBR C465.78
Mapcode Global: WH8Y5.1KJ4
Plus Code: 9C7VHG5J+99
Entry Name: Sunlaws House Hotel
Listing Name: Sunlaws Hotel and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 30 November 1983
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 348626
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15101
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200348626
Location: Roxburgh
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Jedburgh and District
Parish: Roxburgh
Traditional County: Roxburghshire
Tagged with: Hotel
David Rhind of Edinburgh, architect 1853, restored and
enlarged by John Watherston of Edinburgh 1885-86 following
fire. Large asymetrical Scottish Jacobean mansion house, now
a hotel. 3 storeys, mostly mullioned and transomed
windows, some hood-moulded, advanced and recessed gabled
bays with finials or apex stacks. Stugged coursers, polished
dressings. North elevation: Tudor-arched door, hood-mould
raised over panel with crest above; projecting wide square
bay windows (4 and 5 lights) either side (2 storeys to left);
tall, slender 3-stage octagonal turret linked to main block
at right has upper lancets and open parapet (pinnacles
removed); low wing returns right, 2 walled open courts
behind. South elevation extended to west by Watherston and
arranged asymmetrically with single inner windows and
pedimented dormer heads, advanced outer gables, conservatory
at right (remodelled since 1885) with canted south end.
Corbelled oriel faces east; modern fire escape nearby.
String above ground floor; stacks with corniced octagonal
flues; slate roofs. Interior: some decorative carved
chimney pieces; that in stair hall is particularly fine
with elaborate Gothic ornament, traceried cusped panels,
crocketted ogival fireplace opening flanked by figures
in niches; some decorative ceiling plasterwork; library has
fitted book-shelves.
Square gatepiers; cast-iron gates with spiked rails; outer
piers ashlar with projecting caps, cast-iron inner piers
fluted, with cone finials.
Conservatory not as shown on Watherston drawings.
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