Crow stepped gable head ornament (thistle shaped), detail
C 78001
Description Crow stepped gable head ornament (thistle shaped), detail
Date 26/3/1996
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number C 78001
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 564980
Scope and Content Detail of a dormer-head, The Whitehouse, Whitehouse Road, Cramond, Edinburgh The Whitehouse, an early 17th-century laird's house, stands on the west side of Whitehouse Road. The original house, built for the Primrose family, was extended in the 18th and late 19th centuries, and carefully restored in the 1990s. This crowstepped dormer-head, topped by a stone finial in the shape of a thistle, is part of an 18th-century extension to the house, but built in a 17th-century Scottish style. The dormer-head is the gable, often in the form of a pediment, above a window which stands up vertically from the slope of a roof, and lights the room within it. Dormer windows were a common feature of traditional 17th-century Scottish architecture. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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