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Latitude: 56.2095 / 56°12'34"N
Longitude: -3.4432 / 3°26'35"W
OS Eastings: 310579
OS Northings: 702819
OS Grid: NO105028
Mapcode National: GBR 1Z.DLG5
Mapcode Global: WH6RB.26N1
Plus Code: 9C8R6H54+RP
Entry Name: Turfhills House, Kinross
Listing Name: Turfhills House
Listing Date: 12 April 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389617
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43207
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200389617
Location: Kinross
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Kinross-shire
Parish: Kinross
Traditional County: Kinross-shire
Tagged with: House
Early 19th century. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, traditionally detailed classical house with single storey addition. Rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings and ashlar entrance elevation, eaves cornice and blocking course.
S ELEVATION: broad pilastered doorcase at centre with cornice and blocking course; panelled door and rectangular, plate glass fanlight.
Slightly projecting 3-light window to left with cornice and blocking course; window to right. Regular fenestration at 1st floor. Later, slate-hung gabled dormers above outer bays. Single storey wing recessed to right with slightly advanced 3-light window.
N ELEVATION: stair window at centre, with windows flanking to each floor in widely spaced outer bays. Single storey wing with French window slapping, projecting to left and clasping house in piended corner.
W ELEVATION: windows at centre or off-centre. Later single storey low-key, flat-roofed addition to left.
E ELEVATION: window to each floor at centre or off-centre. Single storey gabled addition to right.
Small-pane timber sash and case windows. 4-pane to dormers and 1 attic window. Grey slate roof. Ashlar coped skews and broad gablehead corniced stacks with full complements of octagonal cans.
INTERIOR: not seen.
Turfhills evidently stands on or by the site of an earlier house which was apparently surrounded by Highlanders during the 1745 Rising.
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