Description

18th century, altered and re-worked 1999 (see Notes). Tall 2-storey and attic, 3-bay house with earlier single storey, crowstepped wing to rear. Dry-dash with concrete margins. Base course.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: centre bay at ground with very deep set 6-panelled timber door (2 upper panels glazed) and small segmental-headed boot-scraper opening immediately to right, windows in flanking bays at each floor.

SE ELEVATION: gable projecting to right of centre with windows to left at ground, to right at 1st floor and in gablehead; lower catslide-roofed bay with door to ground and window above in re-entrant angle to left, and bipartite window in single storey bay on higher ground to outer left.

SW ELEVATION: part-glazed timber door to right of centre with small window in crowstepped gable above.

NW (ST CLAIR'S ENTRY) ELEVATION: blank gable to left of centre and window in single storey bay to right.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows. Concrete pantiles. Dry-dash stacks with cans and thackstanes, and ashlar-coped skews.

INTERIOR: modern, but traditional timber fireplace with cast-iron register grate retained.

Statement of Interest

The blank centre bay at first floor formerly featured a door accessed from a forestair. The grounds of Seagate House extended to the shore from where religious refugees would land and seek refuge. During renovations, the current owner has found a Crucifix and eighteenth century coins hidden in wall partitions.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56642767

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)