Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

BORTHWICK MANSE, INCLUDING GATEPIERS, BOUNDARY WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGSLB45150

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
19/03/1998
Local Authority
Midlothian
Planning Authority
Midlothian
Parish
Borthwick
NGR
NT 36858 59580
Coordinates
336858, 659580

Description

Earlier 19th century. 2 storey; 3 bay, L plan manse with mid 19th century additions and alterations. Squared and snecked tooled sandstone with droved dressings, polished to margins; long and short quoins. Base course; chamfered reveals; blind pointed arched recesses set in gableheads; decorative stone finials to apex of gables.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; mid 19th century gabled bay advanced to left with bipartite window to ground and single window centred to 1st floor; single storey, stugged, gabled mid 19th century porch to re entrant angle; panelled timber door and small window to right return; regular fenestration to centre and right bays.

NE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; advanced gabled bay to left with single window offset to left at 1st floor; window to right return at 1st floor; central bay (mid 19th century) recessed, with later snecked sandstone rubble porch and car port advanced to ground floor; window to left; car port to right with window and door to inside left return; skirt roof; irregular fenestration to 1st floor; mid 19th century bay to right slightly recessed with single window centred to ground.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical, 3 bay; advanced central bay (mid 19th century) with bipartite window at ground; single window to 1st floor; stone finial missing; car port in bay to left (see above); late 20th century conservatory in re entrant angle with recessed bay to right.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical, 3 bay; gabled central bay with single window off centre to left of ground and 1st floors; regular fenestration to outer left; blank bay to right.

Predominantly 12 pane lying pane and 8 pane timber sash and case windows. Purple grey graded slate roof with lead ridges; stone coped skews with beaked skewputts; cast iron rainwater goods; polished ashlar gablehead stacks with paired offset corniced flues; ridge stack detailed as above; single ridge stack.

GATEPIERS, BOUNDARY WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS: stugged sandstone gatepiers with stop chamfered droved angles and pyramidal caps. Random rubble boundary wall to NE, NW and SW; coped to NW and SW; droved doorway to NE with boarded timber door; roofless rubble lean to with central doorway and corrugated iron roofed rubble lean to adjacent, to centre of SW inside wall; rubble wall with semi circular coping perpendicular to SW wall swept down to house; boarded timber door leading to front garden; Rubble outbuilding with boarded timber door and slate roof to S corner of garden; simple cast iron railings on low rubble wall to SE of manse.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

Statement of Special Interest

There was an older manse on the site of this one, described in the NSA as "a venerable mansion", however the Heritors Minutes note that although it was a fine building, by 1815 it was falling into disrepair, and was hence replaced by the present building.

References

Bibliography

BORTHWICK HERITORS MINUTE BOOK 1778 1929; 1st (1852) and 2nd (1892) edition OS Maps; J SINCLAIR, THE STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND, (1793), p627; J THOMAS, MIDLOTHIAN: AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE, (RIAS), (1995), p121; THE NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND, Vol 1, (1845), p186 187.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

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)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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