Description

1837 Classical house built in front of 1631 house, thus
doubling its thickness. All 2 storeys, on raised basement.
1837 HOUSE: polished red ashlar (basement droved); 5-bay
south front, inner 3 bays advanced and pedimented, with
narrow basement lights, inner canted window at ground (rising
from basement); other windows 12-pane sashes, architraved
above basement, with aprons and cill bands, and cornices at
ground floor. Principal entrance on short east wall, steps to
pedimented doorpiece. Angle margins. Cornice; symmetrically
placed stacks; piended roof. 1631 HOUSE: (much rebuilt:
rubble-built with ashlar dressings; openings mostly altered
and arranged irregularly, some below relieving arches, some
margined, some with moulded or chamfered reveals;
round-headed stair window, door and wide former
segmental-arched opening (now a window) on north wall; mostly
12-pane sashes; south west angle corbelled at 1st floor where
1837 house adjoins. End and axial stacks; roofs slated.

Statement of Interest

Design of 1837 house comparable with that of Riddingwood

house in Kirkmahoe parish by Walter Newall.

Estate advertised for sale in Dumfries and Galloway Courier

2.4.1834.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17794555

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  For the Record
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)