Description

C and L Ower dated 1890. Large asymmetrical rogue

Baronial mansion house of striking profile on elevated

site. 2-storey and attic/3-storey coursed bull-faced

rubble with ashlar dressings stop-chamfered openings and

crowstepped gables.

3 bay S elevation with end bays slightly advanced,

left-hand bay 3-storey gabled, rectangular bay of 3 lights

with traceried parapet, blind cheeks, 3-light window with

hoodmould stepped over unsculptured shield panel above,

circular angle turrets with fish-scale roofs. Right hand bay 2-storey and attic, piended 4-light canted bay, prismatic roof with trefoil headed lights: centre bay bipartite windows and pedimented dormer.

W entrance front 2-storey and attic on left, with 2-light

Francois 1ER dormer over 2-light window, 3-storey

machicolated tower to right with nook-shafted angles

rising into slated pyramid spirelet with piended lucarnes

and other enrichments, 2-storey billiard room wing with 4

light oriel and partly arcaded clerestorey projects at NW,

open porch with square Corinthianesque piers and corbelled

shouldered arches in re-entrant angle.

E elevation: crowstepped gable with pyramidal-roofed

rectangular bay set diagonally on angle of advanced 2-

and 1-storey and attic service wing, coursed squared

rubble. Lozenge-plan and gable-end stacks.

N elevation: service court. 4-light mullioned, transomed

and traceried stair oriel.

Piended and gabled slate roofs with fishscale turrets.

Wrought-iron and stone finials. Gable and wallhead stacks.

Sash and case windows, mainly 2-pane glazing pattern.

Interesting INTERIOR: Entrance hall has shallow rib vaults

and rich chimneypiece with atlantes. Impressive Jacobean

stair with fretwork balusters and plaster ceiling. Gothic

oriel with art movement figurative glass at the landing.

Stained glass to billiard room clerestory. Anaglypta

dados, timber doorpieces.

Low boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

For Thomas Couper of James Patterson and Co, Lawside

Works.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808562

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)