Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

LAURIESTON HALLLB3418

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Group Category Details
100000020 - See Notes
Date Added
04/11/1971
Local Authority
Dumfries And Galloway
Planning Authority
Dumfries And Galloway
Parish
Balmaghie
NGR
NX 67598 65722
Coordinates
267598, 565722

Description

Large rambling country house of several building periods from

17th-early 20th centuries. Asymmetrical grouping of wings,

the largest and most important to S and E in Edwardian

Renaissance style.

TO N 5-STOREY SQUARE TOWER: lower 3-storeys probably of early 17th-century origin, built up and given decorative 'baronial'

roofline in 1893 by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson, architects.

Harled walling, all openings have 19th century sandstone

margins. Sympathetic rebuilding in 1893 with polished

sandstone corbelled angle rounds with conical roofs. To SE

angle square plan ogee roofed caphouse gives access to small

wall walk with decorative balustrade; weathervane dated 1893.

String course at 4th and 5th floor cills stepped down around

some windows. Slate roofs, tall sandstone wallhead stack to W

with deep cornice.

EARLY 20TH CENTURY WINGS TO S AND E: square-plan Edwardian

Renaissance block, 2 storeys with attic. Harled walling giant

order Ionic angle pilasters, polished sandstone basecourses,

polished raised margins, continuous cill bands. Single or

tripartite windows, sash and case with 12-pane glazing

pattern.

E ELEVATION: asymmetrical wide 4-bay entrance front. 2 right

bays advanced; innermost taller with semi-circular pediment

with flanking ball finials, projecting corniced porte cochere

to ground.

S ELEVATION: symmetrical 3-bay garden front with tripartites

to outer bays. Venetian window with French doors to centre, 3

single light windows at 1st. Deep timber - mutuled eaves,

steep pitch and platform slate roof, projecting dormers.

To S recessed smaller 2-storey 3-bay symmetrical block, all

single windows, details as above. To 1st panel dated 1906 and

inscribed LMH for Huchieson, owner.

To SW mid 19th-century lower single-storey and attic wing in

gothic style. Bowed bays with embattled parapet and

hood-moulded windows flank pointed arch full-height double

doors set in crowstepped gable. This gives appearance of pend

access to courtyard but later building has presumably negated

this function.

INTERIOR: some good plaster cornice and ceiling work. Mostly

panelled doors and shutters. Edwardian neo-jacobean carved

timber chimneypieces to hall.

Statement of Special Interest

Formerly Woodhall. B Group with Stables.

References

Bibliography

Sydney Mitchell and Wilson 1893 plans in NMRS.

About Listed Buildings

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We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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