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Latitude: 55.7827 / 55°46'57"N
Longitude: -2.3019 / 2°18'6"W
OS Eastings: 381165
OS Northings: 654413
OS Grid: NT811544
Mapcode National: GBR D1CK.GX
Mapcode Global: WH8X2.MX29
Plus Code: 9C7VQMMX+37
Entry Name: Dovecot, Manderston House
Listing Name: Manderston, Sunken Terraces with Pavilion and Dovecot
Listing Date: 6 February 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389069
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42533
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Manderston House, Dovecot
ID on this website: 200389069
Location: Duns
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Parish: Duns
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: Dovecote
John Kinross, circa 1895. Pair of sunken terraces to E of house, comprising croquet lawn to W with raised viewing area, stone steps and outbuildings, and tennis court to E. Ashlar sandstone steps in L-plan cascade articulated by ball-finialled dies. Further set with balustrade and ball-finialled dies
TUDOR PAVILION: variegated rubble garden shed with ashlar dressings built into wall with Elizabethan details; windows with moulded surrounds and leaded diamond-pane glazing. Segmental-arcehd doorway with blank panel above flanked by bipartite window to right and to left by low ogee-arched opening. Tripartite window on return to left.
GARDEN HOUSE/DOVECOT: small, square, rake-jointed rubble sandstone building with ashlar dressings set into low, flat-coped wall. Decorative, lead diamond-pane glazing pattern to small bipartite window with moulded surround; cavetto cornice, ashlar, sawtooth, pyramidal roof broken by flight-hole row (3 openings), and alighting ledge above, ball finial at apex. Door on return to right with chamfered arrises, entered through small enclosed area with 2 ball finial flanked dies. Short run of ashlar balustrade flanking to left with central die.
High rubble walls with battered, sawtooth coping.
These terraces complement the more formal, classical terraces immediately surrounding the house. A Group with Manderston, the Formal Gardens, and the South and East Terraces.
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