Archaeology Notes

Event ID 778223

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ51NE 46.00 59525 17419

NJ51NE 46.01 5947 1761 Coach house

NJ51NE 46.02 58579 17851 Mausoleum

NJ51NE 46.03 59551 17573 Walled garden

NJ51NE 46.04 59556 17609 Gazebo

Modern mansion house. A considerable part of this estate at one time belonged to the Knights-Templars, and two fields are still called St. John's Close and Temple Close (NJ 585 180).

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.

Whitehaugh House, 1745, 1838-40, W and J Smith additions and reconstruction. The Smiths did their best for Col J J F Leith but the articulation of their wings and heavy-columned porch with the earlier square Georgian box is achieved with some grinding of the gears, despite the strict adherence to symmetry. The original two-storey-and-basement, seven-window ashlar block with advanced and pedimented central part rather lurks behind the Smiths' over-large Doric portico. The wings are one-window, single-storey-and-basement, with neat pediments echoing the central block. The single-storey N wing has columnewd and glazed square bay. Nevertheless, an honourable endeavour. Neo-Tudor chapel nearby.

I Shepherd 1994.