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Summary

Description

William Robertson, Architect, Elgin, 1841. Symmetrical 2-

storey house with wide 3-bay NE gabled entrance front,

symmetrical return gables and 2-storey, 2-bay rear wing.

Mid 20th century small addition in S re-entrant angle. All

harled with tooled ashlar margins. Centre door masked by

projecting gabled porch with 1861 datestone above shallow

segmental headed entrance with double leaf panelled door.

Outer bays with 2-storey window projection; tripartites in

ground floor, bipartites in 1st floor, the centre under

small stilted gablet. Pair similar bipartites in ground floor

north elevation of rear wing, with 1st floor windows under

similar gablets. Thick centre wooden mullions to all 2- and

3-light windows; similar detailing to all single windows.

Lying-pane glazing, margined in all larger windows. Paired

tapering and corncied ashlar stacks set diagonally on

facetted rectangular bases; similar single centre ridge

stack. Shallow pitched slate roof with projecting eaves;

plain bargeboards with pronounced blocked joist detailing;

wooden ridge finials to gables. Interior; curved centre rear

stair with simple cast-iron balusters. Plain ceiling moulded

cornices in ground floor public rooms.

Statement of Special Interest

Advertisement for tender for "Brin Cottage". House similar to

(now somewhat altered) Innismount, Aludearn, former school

and schoolmaster's house designed by William Robertson, also

in 1841. Porch at Tomintoul House probably dates from 1841

with later (1861) datestone and E.C.S.W for E.C. Sutherland

Walker, who purchased Brin Estate c.1860 and built Brin House

nearby, after which Brin Cottage was probably re-named

Tomintoul, the name under which it appears on 1st ed. OS.

1871.

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