Archaeology Notes

Event ID 709960

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT06SE 2 06234 62962.

NT06SE 5 0610 6310 Dovecot

(NT 06234 62962) The mansion of Linhouse or Burnbrae is a two-period structure. The earlier part was built in 1589, the date carved on the lintel over the original doorway. This building was on a variant of the L-plan. The additions to the N are also L-shaped, and date from about a century later, the whole forming three sides of a courtyard. The building is of rubble and is three storeys high, the N wing of the earlier portion, however, rising a garret storey higher.

Linhouse is still inhabited and in good repair.

RCAHMS 1929, visited 1915; N Tranter 1962

Linnhous (name board) is well-preserved and a good example of domestic architecture of the period.

Visited by OS (JP) 8 March 1974