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