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Summary

Description

Dated 1869, with later additions and alterations in 1873, 1878 and in recent years. 2-storey, 3-bay gabled Baronial asymmetrical house with single storey modern addition projecting to S. Painted harl with painted droved ashlar dressings, except to outer left of E elevation, stugged ashlar with droved ashlar dressings with harled band course between floor and to dormerhead. Base course to canted outer bay to left of E elevation; quoin strips.

E ELEVATION: bays grouped 1-2. 2-bay group, dated 1869 (original house) with advanced and gabled bay to left with canted window at ground and window at 1st floor above. Window to each floor of bay to right, breaking eaves at 1st floor with dormerhead. Tower in re-entrant angle, with panelled door at ground, plate glass letterbox fanlight, flanked by narrow lights; datestone and monogram on lintel; window at 1st floor above. Later (1878?) canted bay to outer left with tripartite window to centre at ground and bipartite window at 1st floor of centre, breaking eaves and with dormerhead. Modern single storey addition to outer left (prefabricated?).

S ELEVATION: 6-bay, grouped 3-1-2. Window to each floor of single bay to inner right (dating from 1873?). Non-aligned window to each floor of bay to left of 2-bay group, breaking eaves at 1st floor with dormerhead. (Single storey addition projecting at ground, outer right.) Bipartite window at ground to centre of 3-bay (1878?) group, window at 1st floor above. Gabled bay to outer left (on higher ground, ground floor at 1st floor height of bay to right) with bipartite window flanked to right by window; window to gablehead. Advanced bay to right of 3-bay group with timber-mullioned quadripartite window at 1st floor (with cat-slide roof).

N ELEVATION: each bay gabled (M-gable to 2 bays to outer right). Bay to centre set back with border-glazed window at 1st floor. 2-bay group (1878) to right on rising ground with piended-advanced bay at ground of outer bay with date stone to gablehead. Window to each floor of inner bay to left (slightly advanced from line of outer bay to left) with round-arch to 1st floor and date stone as keystone. Window to each floor of bay to outer left.

4-pane and plate glass timber sash and case windows. Slate roof (candlesnuffer roof to tower in re-entrant angle of E elevation). Exposed roof rafters at eaves. Timber finials to most of dormerheads and gableheads; cast-iron finial to tower. Ashlar coped stacks.

INTERIOR: timber carved chimneypiece and compartmentalised plasterwork to later (1878?) dining room; white marble chimneypiece to original dining room. Timber panelled dies to stair banister. Encaustic tiles to vestibule.

GATEPIERS: bull-faced granite square-plan pyramidal-topped gatepiers to end of drive (to N).

Statement of Special Interest

This building was erected for the Craig-Brown family, (see listing for Ettrick Terrace, Ettrick Lodge, Ettrick Dene, with boundary walls, railings and gateways). There was an extensive conservatory projecting from the outer right of the N elevation in the 1950s. The house was first turned from a private residence to a Temperance Hotel; and has remained a hotel ever since, although now licensed. The single storey lodge is near to the house, to N, and has been much altered in modern times. Stylistically it is similar to the main house.

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