Description

Early 19th century. 2-storey with upper floor breaking eaves, 5-bay, rectangular-plan, symmetrical, piend-roofed house comprising slightly taller 3-bay central block with gabled dormers and prominent central ridge stack, and slightly recessed wings with small gabled dormers to side elevations and prominent louvred ridge vents. Squared, coursed sandstone. Regular fenestration with projecting cills. Late 20th century rendered bow-ended stair tower to rear.

12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. 20th century glazed entrance door with fanlight over. Coped, rendered stacks with yellow clay cans. Grey slate roofs; lead flashings.

GARDEN WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS: rubble-coped walls forming enclosed garden to rear. Large separate decorative garden to SE enclosed by simple wrought-iron fence and arched gates.

HEN HOUSE: small symmetrical 3-bay hen house with droved snecked coursed sandstone walls, piended slate roof, boarded door and 8-pane timber sash and case windows. Nesting boxes inside with underground hen run tunnel emerging at the Ha ha.

Statement of Interest

Tanlaw House is a good example of an early 19th century estate house surviving largely in its original condition and forming an important element of the group of buildings that form the Hendersyde Estate. The house was formerly known as Tanlaw Coachhouse; the wings housing the coach and horses. The wings were incorporated into the house during a conversion in the1930's. Early maps show further outbuildings in the garden to the rear which have now been lost.

The Hen house is a good example of small estate building in its original condition with nesting boxes and a rare underground tunnel allowing the hens to forage beyond the Ha Ha.

Hendersyde Park was seat to the Waldie family. Notable family members include Robert Waldie, who was a friend of Sir Walter Scott. Scott was a regular visitor to the Hendersyde and made use of their extensive library. John Waldie was a writer and a bound manuscript of his is held within the 19th century manuscripts collection at Yale University. The original house to the estate was the only mansion in Ednam Parish at the time of the 2nd Statistical Account. It was replaced by the present house in about 1940.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77780484

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)