Description

Peddie & Kinnear, architects, circa 1870. Former stables
now converted for domestic use, 3 ranges in U-plan, Scots
baronial, with angle turrets to both south gables linked
linked to screen walls closing cobbled courtyard at south.
North range: 2 storeys, others single storey with lofts.
Harled, with red ashlar dressings and painted margins;
upper openings with pedimented dormer heads. Angle turrets
both circular with dummy gun loop and corbelled to square
at upper level, with steep pyramidal roofs; upper openings
house clocks and dovecote; diminutive lucarnes and
weathervane finial. North range in domestic use, 3
segmental cart arches to courtyard now blocked/glazed; door
to east; central wall head stack, 2 1st floor gabled
windows either side breaking eaves; east and west wings
both have square-headed doors, windows and loft doors;
east range also has segmental arched cartway and
distinctive leaded gabled and bracketted ventilator raised
above ramped plinth over wall-head. Coped stacks; south
gables crow-stepped; slate roofs.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17795036

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair