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Architecture Notes
Event ID 791334
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/791334
NS97NW 78 91183 79435
This is a 19th century two-storeyed house and basement, with a single-storeyed extension containing the kitchen on the E side. The building is rubble-built with slate roofs, chimney stacks, coped skews on each gable, and two pedimented dormers with ornate finials on its N side. There are single-storeyed extensions to the rear which are mostly brick-built.
The house was occupied in the 1870s by Alfred Nobel during a period in which he operated the nearby Westquarter and Redding Muir detonator factories, as well as establishing dynamite manufacture at Ardeer in Ayrshire.
Visited by RCAHMS (MKO), 4 September 1997.
