Description

1817. Built for writer Robert Gordon. Detached house of 2-storeys over bsement, 3-bays. Painted squared rubble, painted margins and rusticated quoins. Band course at ground floor level. Cebtral door with narrow flanking lights with etched glass at head of 4 steps, wide segmental fanlight, engaged Ionin columned doorpiece with central keystone and cornice. Cill band to ground floor windows; 12-pane glazing. Cornice

and blocking course. Garden front has prominent full-height semi-octagonal central bay rising through the eaves to catellated parapet. Cillband to 1st floor windows. Piended slate roof. Front courtyard with good spear-pattern cast-iron railings, square cast-iron gatepiers with finials, gates with decorative lower panels.

INTERIOR: pilastered, depressed-arch hall screen; octagonal drawing room with naturalistic detail in cornice; good cast-iron stair balustrade. SUMMERHOUSE: circular, built into harbour retaining wall. Rubble-built with Gothic windows. Castellated.

Statement of Interest

In 1821 Mary Gordon married Dr Blair. His last daughter died at Blair House in 1933.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17569923

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)