Description

18th century, skewputt dated 1643. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay rectangular-plan asymmetrical girnel Keeper's house with 2-bay crowstepped gabled block to left with slightly recessed entrance bay, abutting Girnel House (listed separately) to right, (W). Random rubble with red sandstone dressings. Long and short margins to windows; long and short quoins.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: window at each floor in each bay to gabled block to left; gablehead stack above. Architraved door way with round-arched Georgian fanlight at ground in linking bay to right; window at 1st floor above.

4- and 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Traditional, graded stone tiled roof; stone skews; cavetto-moulded skewputts; dressed rubble gablehead stack to N; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1998.

Statement of Interest

Traditionally sited with its gabled end to the street, this building adjoins the girnel house to the west and housed the girnel keeper. He was responsible for administering the intake and distribution of grain, paid in kind as rent to the Earldom estate. Features of interest to note include the small-pane glazing, the intact traditional stone slated roof and the elegant entrance with round-arched fanlight; the red sandstone skeputt to the west is inscribed '1643/IC/MC'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17827536

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2