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Event ID 566855
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Blackburn House, 1771
Janus-faced house: ceremonial north front, with later Doric porch, presents pedimented and pavilion-roofed picture of gentility flanked by a screen to pavilions. But first-floor windows do not light generously proportioned rooms (the attic floor runs across their middle). East and west it appears not as a country mansion but as a farmhouse; and those pavilions as barns. East/west passage beneath the house. Fine drawing and dining rooms with plaster ceilings and bay windows with a splendid view south. Restored, 2007, after 30 years of neglect, by Simpson and Brown for the Cockburn Conservation Trust as a centre for the creative industries with Heritage Lottery, European, enterprise company and council support.
Taken from "West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
