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Summary

Description

1783, 2-storey manse, extended and given arcaded

facade, 1820. Pink sandstone ashlar frontage, rubble

elsewhere; base and band courses and cornice.

NW ELEVATION: 1820. 5-bay. Mid 19th century gabled

porch adjoined to penultimate bay to left, round-arched

window to front door on SW return; gablet skews and

ball finials. Regular windows to remaining bays at

ground, and in 1st floor, round-arched arcade of panels,

with window partly intercepted by porch made blind.

Outer right bay with rubble single storey, slightly

recessed lean-to with coped and segmental parapet.

"Dairy" incised above ground floor window of outer left bay.

SE ELEVATION: irregular. 4 bays of original house to

left, with piend-roofed, rectangular-plan stair block,

probably 1820, set in re-entrant angle with advanced

extension to right; 3 bays to left with regular windows

to each floor. 1 ground floor window and 1 central 1st

floor window to piend-roofed extension. Single storey

bay to outer left, detailed as above.

NE ELEVATION: 3 irregular openings, 1820.

SW ELEVATION: lean-to addition at ground, given modern

conservatory windows; 1st floor window to left and

central attic window in gablehead.

12-pane and 4-pane glazing patterns to sash and case

windows. Purple slates. Ashlar stacks.

STABLE COURTS: simple rectangular enclosure with coped

rubble boundary walls and stugged square ashlar

gatepiers, sited to SE of house. Alterations at N angle,

2 stable doors retained, and pigsty enclosures adjoined to

SE. Piend-roofed SE side, with 3 stable doors, 1 cart

door and windows. Cement cobbled court.

INTERIOR: timber stalls, wrought-iron hay basket and

stone flagging retained in SE row.

RETAINING WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rubble retaining walls;

square gatepiers to N.

Statement of Special Interest

The house originally served as Stenton Manse. Possibly

re-fenced and enlarged by William Burn (after a fire

caused by a bolt of lightning, in 1819), as an early

work by the young architect, who would later (1829) build

the new parish church in stugged pink sandstone ashlar.

Colin McWilliam suggests Sir Robert Smirke's possible

involvement, probably in consideration of the blind arcade

designed by him at Whittinghame House Stables.

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