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Summary

Description

Circa 1700, 2-storey, 5-bay mansion with early 19th

century wings adjoined at right angles to probably

earlier wings added to gable end elevations, and

forming entrance court. Rubble with ashlar dressings;

pink harling; chamfered arrises to windows.

SE ELEVATION: circa 1700 block of 5 symmetrical bays.

Centre bay breaking eaves in ogival gabled dormerhead

with scrolled skewputts, gablehead stack and window;

lugged and roll-moulded doorpiece with swan-neck

pediment cradling cartouche; 2-leaf studded doors.

Windows in flanking bays at ground and in each bay a 1st

floor. Early 19th century piend-roofed wings at right

angles from lower 2-storey original wings both blank on

courtyard returns; full-height, piend-roofed canted

window in gable to wing to left; 2 windows to each floor

of wing to right.

NW ELEVATION: near symmetrical arrangement to original

house; ogival wallhead gable repeated at centre with

stair window below; 2 ground floor windows in bays to

right, 1 to left, with 1st floor windows in bays

flanking centre. Lower piend-roofed wings, flush with

earlier elevation, probably earlier than taller wings

projecting from SE elevation. Mid 19th century, 2-storey

piend-roofed addition to NE, with service entrance.

NE elevation with lean-to addition at ground in re-

entrant by later block.

12-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows. Grey

slates; ashlar coped skews with scrolled skewputts to

original house, and coped end stacks; decorative cans.

WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rubble retaining walls with semi-

circular coping and grey ashlar piers with moulded

cornices and pyramidal caps.

Statement of Special Interest

Decorative wrought-iron balustrade to winding stair.

Former 18th century coach house and stables to E, and

steading of 1858 further to E, not included in current

listings; the grieve's house is listed separately. Name

derived from original owners, the Liestons: the Menzies

of Castle Menzies owned the estate from 1829-45, when

the SPCK, took the house as an investment. It returned

to private hands in 1921.

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