Description

James Kennedy Hunter, 1901-4. 3-storey with basement. Asymmetrical-plan large mansion house in stripped Scottish manorial style. Harl; ashlar dressings. Crowstepped gables; jettying to upper floors; stone mullions to bi- and tripartite windows.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 15 bay, grouped 3-3-3-3-3. Forestair with wall (timber door and 2 small windows to left of basement) to advanced M-gabled central entrance; ball finials. Roll-moulded central doorpiece; 2-leaf boarded timber door; flanking windows to ground, 1st and 2nd floors; cannon spout projects at centre of 2nd floor. Recessed flanking 3-bay sections; regular fenestration at ground, 1st and 2nd floors (2 windows only at ground floor to left). Advanced crowstepped gabled bays to outer left and right; 2 single windows at ground to bay to outer right; 3 single windows to 1st floor; 2 single windows to 2nd floor. 3 small windows at basement to bay to outer left; 2 single windows at ground floor; single window to right at 1st floor; central single window at 2nd floor. Single windows at ground and 2nd floors to re-entrant angle to left; 2 smaller windows to 1st and 2nd floors.

E ELEVATION: 10-bay, grouped 3-3-1-1-1-1, with entrance to garages to outer right. 2 single windows at ground to outer left of gabled bay; 2 single windows to centre and right at 1st and 2nd floors. Steps to roll-moulded corniced doorpiece in penultimate 3-bays to left; leaded 3-light fanlight, single window flanking to left, 2 single windows to right; 3 single windows to 1st and 2nd floors. Regular fenestration to remaining 4 bays (2 single windows at ground to bay to outer left and penultimate bay to right); 2nd floor windows break eaves to form gabled dormers.

Coped wall forms entrance to courtyard garages; 2 single windows to outer right; ball finials flanking entrance and single ball finial to corner.

W ELEVATION: 8-bay, grouped 2-4-2. 4 arched entrances at basement in recessed central 4-bay; 2 single windows to left, single window to right at ground floor; regular fenestration at 1st and 2nd floors (smaller window to penultimate bay to left); windows at 2nd floor break eaves to form gabled dormers (with exception of window to penultimate bay to left). 2 single windows at basement in advanced gabled bay to outer right; single window at ground floor; regular fenestration to 1st and 2nd floors. Openings at basement to advanced gabled bay to outer left ; 2 single windows at ground and 1st floors; tripartite window at 2nd floor.

N ELEVATION: 12-bay, grouped, 2-2-1-2-1-1-3. Advanced flat roofed entrance at ground to outer right; ball finials flanking at apex; roll moulded central doorway, circular pediment, flanking windows; 2 single windows at 1st floor; single window to left at 2nd floor. Single windows at ground, 1st and 2nd floors to gabled penultimate bay to right. Adjacent flat-roofed canted bay at ground, tripartite windows to front, bipartites to sides; single window at 2nd floor. 3 sets of gabled bays; single windows at ground, 1st and 2nd floor to central set; 2 single windows at ground, 1st and 2nd floors to flanking bays (single window only to ground floor of bay to left). 2 single windows at ground and 1st floors to 2 bay section to outer left; tripartite attic dormer.

RE-ENTRANT ANGLE: 6-bay, grouped 2-1-3. 2 single windows at ground to gabled section; single window at ground to right. 2 single windows at ground to 3-bay group to outer right; 3 single windows at 1st floor; 2 single windows at 2nd floor.

GARAGE COURT: 6 single windows to rear of courtyard single storey garage.

Plate glass, 4-, 6-, 12-, 18-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; crowstepped skews; skewputts; variety of coped gablehead and ridge stacks; circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

SUNDIAL: to S elevation. Square stone shaft; vertical dial and gnomon.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland