Sbc Note

Event ID 1023273

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Sbc Note

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Built in 1874 by William Hay. Distinctly composed mansion with Romanesque, early Gothic and Jacobean details, baronial entrance tower and conservatory. Mainly 2-storey and attic; a symmetrical composition, with slim square entrance tower (NE angle) with corbelled parapet, cap house, and corbelled angle turret of 2 stages, fishscale conical slated cap and cast-iron ball finial. The conservatory is contemporary; apsidal ended plan with arched and panelled roof, glass gabled clesetory with cast iron cresting at apex. Surviving boarded garden doors with elaborate neo-medieval wrought-iron hinges.

Information from Scottish Borders Council