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Burnfoot Hall Nursing Home (Formerly Rickerby School)

A Category B Listed Building in Middlebie, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.0603 / 55°3'37"N

Longitude: -3.2442 / 3°14'39"W

OS Eastings: 320626

OS Northings: 574688

OS Grid: NY206746

Mapcode National: GBR 59SX.FT

Mapcode Global: WH6Y1.42DJ

Plus Code: 9C7R3Q64+48

Entry Name: Burnfoot Hall Nursing Home (Formerly Rickerby School)

Listing Name: Burnfoot Hall Nursing Home (Formerly Rickerby School)

Listing Date: 3 August 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 350812

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16976

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200350812

Location: Middlebie

County: Dumfries and Galloway

Electoral Ward: Annandale North

Parish: Middlebie

Traditional County: Dumfriesshire

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Description

Style of Walter Newall of Dumfries. Built 1830/40
incorporating existing house, moderately large neo-Tudor
country house, now a school. Main elevations with advanced
wide and narrow gables with hood-moulded mullioned/mullioned
and transomed windows, shaped skews run horizontally over
skewputts and with spike finials. Red ashlar.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 5 bays, and symmetrically composed
with changing planes; castellated gothic central bay not
contemporary (?circa 1820), wide gabled outer bays,
intermediate bays (one with porch) with dormerheads. Deeply
recessed and slightly lower service wing right (not seen on
approach) with unusual gable finial with onion.
Long W elevation with canted window in advanced central
gable, 2-storey narrow square tower left rises above main
eaves level and has steep pyramidal fish-scale slated roof.
Axial stacks with diamond flues; all roofed with graded
slates. Some late 19th century additions to N, to service
court.
Courtyard buildings (one with 1798 lintel) now mostly
derelict: stables listed separately.
INTERIOR: elaborate late 19th century work including ceiling
and cornice plasterwork and timber panelling. Spacious main
stair hall (?contemporary with castellated S-facing bay) with
(?later) lantern, scale-and-platt stone staircase with
decorative cast-iron balusters, 3-light coloured glass window
(at roof level) with Tudor-arched hood-mould.

Statement of Interest

Formerly a seat of the Irving family. Opened as a school in

1951. Compares stylistically with Gribton house, near Dumfries.

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