Description
David Bryce, architect. Dated 1856. Scottish Baronial mansion
house.
2-storeys with attics over raised basement. Squared white
granite blocks, partly cherry-caulked, contrasting red ashlar
margins, quoins, crow-steps, corbels and dressings. Gabled
porch in south west re-entrant angle below ground floor
level, door in lugged architrave, continuous string over
basement raised over plaque above door; 2 outer gables to
west elevation; twin gables to south; east elevation: 2
canted ground floor windows, that to right, in tall gabled
bay, splayed inwards at basement, corbelled to chamfer at 1st
floor, and to square at main eaves level; conical-roofed
bartizan to right; other window with ball finials, 2 1st
floor windows above with pedimented dormer heads; deeply
recessed right bay corbelled above ground floor,
conical-roofed turret in re-entrant angle, rising above
eaves, with weathervane finial. Sash windows with small
panes, central lugs to most window jambs. Coped wall-head or
apex stacks; slate roofs, with fish-scaling to conical roofs.
Interior (attics completed 1866 by James Barbour of
Dumfries, architect): some good timberwork (eg on stair) and
cornice plasterwork.