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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 702243

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/702243

NS53SW 3 50958 34140

(NS 5088 3414) Sornhill, a tall, attractive laird's house of the 17th century is an L-planned building of three storeys and a garret, with crow-stepped gables and a square stair-tower rising in the re-entrant angle. A modern porch at the foot of the stair-tower covers the original entrance. The windows, where they have not been enlarged, are small, with simple roll mouldings; some have been built up. Many of the windows have inscribed lintels, now worn and indecipherable; one above the first floor window is dated 16??.

N Tranter 1970

As described. Sornhill is now unoccupied and fast becoming derelict. One stair tower lintel bears the date 1660, and another the initials N M R.

Visited by OS (JRL) 22 June 1982

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