Archaeology Notes

Event ID 716155

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT46NE 12.00 48633 69355

(NT 4865 6936) Pilmuir (NR)

OS 6" map (1969)

Pilmuir House, built in 1624 (the date is inscribed above the original doorway), consists of a main oblong block, with two storeys and a dormered attic; a smaller wing projects from the centre of its N side - this houses a spiral staircase and rises one storey higher. A turret stair is corbelled out over the W re-entrant angle. The two-storeyed outbuilding in the E re-entrant angle is probably an addition. In the early 18th century, a new front door was made in the centre of the S front and the windows were altered. The walls are of harled rubble; the gables and dormer pediments are crow-stepped.

RCAHMS 1924, visited 1913; C McWilliam 1978

Pilmuir is as described and in good condition.

Visited by OS (BS) 25 July 1975.

Possible 17th century garden.

N Hynd 1984.