Description
Peddie & Kinnear, architects. Dated 1865. Scottish Baronial
mansion house; asymmetrical; 2 storeys and attics over raised
basement. Snecked, bullfaced ashlar, polished dressings, rope
and roll-mouldings; strings, corbelled angle turrets,
crow-stepped gables, finialed and pedimented dormer heads.
Single or mullioned windows. 4-storey square tower over
entrance bay, corbelled and machicolated, conical-roofed cap
house over stair turret. North elevation: off-centre
flat-roofed porch linked to main elevation by curved
passageway, foliate decoration below parapet, pedimented
datestone over architraved door. Round-headed window above in
tower with columned jambs and arched head, corbelled
semi-circular balcony. Slightly advanced outer gables, angle
turret at north west, conical roof above cut off to support
columned belfry with conical roof. Adjoining low service wing
returns north; modern classroom addition (excluded from
listing) to north east angle. East elevation: outer bays
canted, and corbelled to square below gables; full height
circular turrets to inner re-entrant angle at left; boldly
corbelled balcony to inner bays above basement level, arcaded
balustrade South elevation: 4-light ground floor window in
projecting square bay; 2 tall wall head stacks, south west
angle turret corbelled above basement, corbelled to square
and gabled at 1st floor; 3-light stair window with stepped
cills and pedimented gable faces east. Wall head, apex and
axial stacks, some off-set, mostly with decoration below
cope. Slated roofs.
Interior: ground floor ceiling cornices mostly have foliate
decoration; similar ornament to chimney pieces. Steps lead
from main door into entrance hall; staircase has twisted
wooden balusters with pendants below newels. Library has
fitted bookshelves: large room adjoining (at south east) has
ribbed ceiling. Partly enclosed by rubble-built
irregular-plan terrace wall with ashlar parapet and piers.