Documents

There are no additional online documents for this record.

Summary

Description

Early 19th century with wings added later/late 19th century. Two-storey and attic and basement, symmetrical classical mansion, comprising three-bay main block with short two-storey and basement; flanking wings. Pilastered doorcase to principal (south) elevation. Red sandstone ashlar; partially rendered. Cill band to ground floor windows (except to north side of main block); moulded eaves cornice surmounted by low parapet. Moulded architraved openings except to basement of principal elevation and rear (north) side of original block. Vertical margins at angles of original block (pilaster-like to principal elevation) and west wing.

South (principal) elevation: seven bays. Steps up to central entrance to original main block. Later balustraded parapet. Pilastered doorpiece with entablature. Replacement six-panel timber door surmounted by leaded fanlight. Flanking windows to each floor and one above at first floor and attic. Later flat-headed dormers to attic. Later two-bay wings set back slightly to either side; window to each bay to first and second floors and to basement of right wing.

North elevation: five bays. Later flat-headed dormers to attic. Later wing set back slightly to right including two-light mullioned window at basement. Canted three-sided bay projects to later wing to left. Cill course at first floor.

East elevation: three bays to later wing. Window to each bay to ground and 1st floors except to central bay of first floor (that to left of first floor blocked).

West elevation: canted three-light window to ground and first floor of later wing.

Mainly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Piended grey slate roofs (more steeply pitched to accommodate later attic to main block). Pair of tall coped ridge chimney stacks to main block and coped ridge and wallhead chimney stack to east wing. Also pair of later projecting wallhead chimney stacks at east end with round cans.

Interior: retains a number of neo-Georgian fixtures and fittings (of early-earlier 20th century date) including doorcases incorporating Adamesque fan-like motif at head, six-panel timber doors and timber panelled dado to most of ground floor. Full-height timber panelling to living room; fitted bookcases with central arched sections; carved timber fireplace surround (incorporating fasces-type motif). Dining room dado dentilled; carved timber fireplace surround incorporating egg and dart motif (and marble inner surround); intact dumb waiter to adjacent serving space. Grey marble fireplace surround (probably slightly earlier than most of other fittings), panelled walls and fluted border to ceiling to rear sitting room. Slightly later (circa 1930's) principal staircase; winding servants' staircase with cast iron balustrade.

Summer House: early 20th century. Square-plan boarded timber summer house with pyramidal thatched roof with overhanging eaves. Four-leaf timber door with glazed upper panels to one side (serpentine timber handrail to lower outer flanking panels in front of door); window to each of flanking sides. Formerly built onto a wheel mechanism which allowed summer house to be rotated.

Statement of Special Interest

B-Group with Steading/Stable Block, Entrance Lodge and Gateway and Walled Garden.

An early 19th century house, sympathetically extended with near matching wings in the late 19th century (both extensions are shown on the 1898 Ordnance Survey map but neither on that of 1865). It retains a substantial amount of Neo-Georgian internal fittings. The main block is thought to have been built in around 1806 when the property passed to William Leckie (Leiper) on the death of the last in line of the Stewart family who had owned the estate since the late 17th century. The estate changed hands various times between 1826 and 1873 when it was split up; part of the lands being sold to the Wilson family of Aucheneck, part to Charles Haldane Wilson of Dalnair; the house and grounds were sold to John Wilson, a Glasgow shipowner, who would appear to have had added the wings. On his death in 1928 the house was sold to Mrs Amy Shand (who is thought to have undertaken much of its internal modernisation) and for much of the latter part of the 20th century it belonged to the Mitchell family.

The summerhouse is among a relatively small number of buildings with a thatched roof found across Scotland. Listed building record revised in 2020 as part of the Thatched Buildings Listing Review.

References

Bibliography

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

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)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

Listed building consent is required for changes to a listed building which affect its character as a building of special architectural or historic interest. The relevant planning authority is the point of contact for applications for listed building consent.

Find out more about listing and our other designations at www.historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-support. You can contact us on 0131 668 8914 or at designations@hes.scot.