View from south Digital image of D 46955/cn

Description View from south Digital image of D 46955/cn

Date 23/6/1999

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 765055

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 46955 CN

Scope and Content Drumlanrig Mains, Drumlanrig Estate, Dumfries & Galloway, from the south This substantial pink sandstone house, built in a Tudor style in the manner of the architect, William Burn (1789-1870), was altered by James Laird c.1924. It has an asymmetrical three-bayed south front with a plain, recessed end bay (left). The main two-bayed block is more ornate, with hood-moulded mullioned windows and dormers all with lying-pane glazing (horizontal frames). The roof is slated and the skews, the sloping stones along the edge of the roof above the gables, have coping stones raised well above roof level, and are finished with skewputts with projecting mouldings. The low chimney-stack which rises from the main block, has tall, impressive octagonal flues. The house was probably built for the manager of the sawmill, an important position when timber production was being developed as a substantial business interest for the estate. After 1819, much of the surrounding land was re-planted with trees, a popular fashion for 19th-century landowners who wished to improve and landscape their estates. The estate had 10,000 acres of policy woodlands of mixed age and species, and the Nithsdale soil and conditions of high rainfall produced good quality softwood. Drumlanrig Mains, an early 19th-century house now used as the estate office, stands at the south-east corner of a sawmill and workshop complex on the Duke of Queensberry's extensive Drumlanrig estate. The estate, which derived some of its land from King Robert Bruce c.1300, includes the family seat, Drumlanrig Castle, one of the great Renaissance courtyard houses of Scottish domestic architecture, and provides employment for several hundred people. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/765055

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap