Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

QUIXWOOD FARMHOUSE INCLUDING WALLED GARDEN, BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATESLB44917

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
16/12/1997
Local Authority
Scottish Borders
Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Parish
Abbey St Bathans
NGR
NT 78718 63175
Coordinates
378718, 663175

Description

Early 19th century with additional 2-storey wing to N dated 1872; later alterations and additions. Original 2-storey, 3-bay plain classical style, rectangular-plan house with 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular-plan addition forming T-plan; 2-storey, single bay wing beyond with lean to addition to front, single storey wing at rear. Coursed and whitewashed render; droved and polished sandstone dressings. Raised base course; narrow strip quoins. Sandstone margins; projecting cills; pilastered doorpiece. Surrounding walled garden.

NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: step to timber panelled door centred at ground in wing dated 1872; plate glass fanlight; surrounding doorpiece with flanking pilasters, plain frieze, cornice and blocking course; single window aligned at 1st floor. Single windows at both floors in flanking bays. Earlier 2-bay, gabled wing advanced to outer left with single windows at ground and 1st floors in both bays; small attic light off-set to left of centre. Single window at ground in lean-to addition to outer right; single window recessed above.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: 3-light corniced, canted windows at ground in bays to outer left and right; single windows in all 3 bays at 1st floor.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: original house with small attic light off set to right of centre; single windows at both floors in bay to left. 1872 wing with single windows at both floors in bay projecting to right (breaking eaves at 1st floor); single windows at both floors in bay to left. Single windows at both floors in lower, 2-storey wing to outer left.

Plate glass, 12- and 16-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roofs; raised stone skews; predominantly replacement rainwater goods. Unusually shouldered apex stacks rebuilt in brick to original house; banded brick apex stack to 1872 wing; banded wallhead stack with dentilled cornice at rear; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

WALLED GARDEN: near rectangular-plan walled garden surrounding house; coped rubble walls (some red brick facing).

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: coped rubble walls enclosing site to NW. Stop-chamfered, square-plan sandstone gatepiers flanking entrance; platformed pyramidal caps; decorative iron gates.

Statement of Special Interest

An interesting farmhouse in which it is possible to trace the evolutionary stages of building. The original house appears to have been a simple, rectangular-plan structure with minimal decoration. Later additions have proven sympathetic and, together with the surrounding walled garden and square-plan gatepiers, create an impressive whole. Rutherfurd's Register refers to a Joseph Allan Esq. as the proprietor of Quixwood in 1866. The nearby steading and associated farmworkers? cottages are not listed.

References

Bibliography

Valuation Roll, Berwickshire, Abbey St Bathans Parish, 1855-'6; Ordnance Survey maps, 1857 and 1900 (appears on); RUTHERFURD?S SOUTHERN COUNTIES' REGISTER AND DIRECTORY (1st published 1866, reprinted 1990).

About Listed Buildings

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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.

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