Description

1878 with later additions and alterations. Single storey with attic, 3-bay "cottage orne", ornamental lodge house with modern brick addition and conservatory to NE. Bull-faced sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course, long and short slightly advanced quoins; ashlar mullioned and transomed windows, with slender lancet lights; chamfered arrises.

SW ELEVATION: advanced jerkin-headed bay to centre with slightly advanced window with cornice and cill course, further windows flanking; bipartite window to SE return elevation, breaking eaves with gabled dormerhead above. Timber boarded half-piended porch to re-entrant NW angle to left with traverse-boarded and studded door, with wrought-iron fittings. Bay to right set back and blank.

SE ELEVATION: gabled with tripartite window (central light taller). Red brick addition with concrete coping to right with modern 2-pane window.

NE ELEVATION: modern glazed door to centre at attic level. Modern brick addition with platformed roof and modern conservatory.

NW ELEVATION: jerkin-headed gable with tripartite window as to SE.

Original glazing to all except central light of SW window and to modern addition. Ornamental complex slate roof with bands of green fishscale slates; jerkin-headed projection to centre, SW and NE, also to NW elevation. Swept steep half-piended roof to central light of tripartite to centre of SW with spherical finial. Modern rooflight to SE return of central projection (of SW). Cast-iron cresting to ridge. Ornamental pierced bargeboarding to gables with timber finials. Ashlar coped stack to centre with 2 barley-twist coped flues.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL AND PIER: to E; squared and snecked stugged sandstone with rounded droved ashlar coping. Square-plan pier to W end with pyramidal coping.

Statement of Interest

This was the North Lodge for the Blackadder Estate, which was sold during the 1920s. There was a projection to rear, which was pulled down during the later 20th century, in order that the present brick addition could be built. The stone was used to build the garage to SE. According to the current occupants (1996), the house was originally the estate manager's cottage. The date is written upon the sign and is therefore debatable although stylistically the date would be credible. The ornamental slating is typically of the estate improvements undertaken in the later 19th century on the Blackadder estate.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17853021

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings