Listed Building
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Address/Name of Site
AMISFIELD HOUSELB17232
Status: Designated
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Summary
- Category
- B
- Date Added
- 03/08/1971
- Local Authority
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Planning Authority
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish
- Tinwald
- NGR
- NX 99201 83774
- Coordinates
- 299201, 583774
Description
1837 Classical house built in front of 1631 house, thus
doubling its thickness. All 2 storeys, on raised basement.
1837 HOUSE: polished red ashlar (basement droved); 5-bay
south front, inner 3 bays advanced and pedimented, with
narrow basement lights, inner canted window at ground (rising
from basement); other windows 12-pane sashes, architraved
above basement, with aprons and cill bands, and cornices at
ground floor. Principal entrance on short east wall, steps to
pedimented doorpiece. Angle margins. Cornice; symmetrically
placed stacks; piended roof. 1631 HOUSE: (much rebuilt:
rubble-built with ashlar dressings; openings mostly altered
and arranged irregularly, some below relieving arches, some
margined, some with moulded or chamfered reveals;
round-headed stair window, door and wide former
segmental-arched opening (now a window) on north wall; mostly
12-pane sashes; south west angle corbelled at 1st floor where
1837 house adjoins. End and axial stacks; roofs slated.
Statement of Special Interest
Design of 1837 house comparable with that of Riddingwood
house in Kirkmahoe parish by Walter Newall.
Estate advertised for sale in Dumfries and Galloway Courier
2.4.1834.
References
Bibliography
RCAHM INVENTORY OF DUMFRIES, 1920 (no. 578)
SNMR - photographs and drawings (including 2 of 1631 house
front)
1901 Sale Catalogue in Ewart Library Dumfries (provides date
of later house).
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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