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Publication Account
Date 1998
Event ID 1019258
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019258
The manse, called The Cloisters figure 20.Y, was built in 1815 to a design of John Smith of Darnick. A two-storeyed dwelling house with three bays, it has a piended slated roof The centre door has a corniced architrave and fanlight. Abbry Park figure 22.1, constructed c1820, now St Mary's Preparatory School, is a two-storeyed, three bay classical villa with a Tuscan pilastered doorpiece. It is built of coursed squared rubble with polished ashlar dressings and has a piended slated roof Its classical stable block of a similar date is yet another remnant of the times of horse drawn transport.
Information from ‘Historic Melrose: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1998).
