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Architecture Notes

Event ID 796627

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/796627

NS88SE 31 87949 82913

(NS 87949 82913) Stenhouse, originally a tower-house and later enlarged, is no longer in use as a mansion, but has been reconditioned for a number of individual tenants. The tower-house was built in 1622 by William Bruce of Stenhouse; it still stands in good preservation and in substantially its original form despite periodic alterations. Of these, the most important was carried out in, or soon after, 1836, as architect's plans of that date show the large Classical and turreted extension still existing on the W side of the house, and also offices on the E side. That the latter were built and removed is suggested by a cement raggle on the E face of the tower. The house, which is L-shaped on plan contains 4 storeys and an attic.

RCAHMS 1963, visited 1955

Stenhouse demolished c. 1960's. Its site now lies in the middle of a housing estate.

Visited by OS (BS) 7 February 1974

NMRS REFERENCE

Architect: William Burn 1836 (Additions)

Original house 1622

The 'Stenhouse Sundial', illustrated opposite page 26 in 'Lands and Lairds of Larbert and Dunipace Parishes' by John C Gibson, 1908, later stood in the garden of Carronvale, (NS88SE 113). This is recorded in 'Sundials of Six Scottish Counties near Glasgow' by W B Stevenson, page 255, and the photograph in MS 5741/5/29 shows it in the latter location. The globe from the top was reported in 1989 to be in the possession of the Falkirk Local History Society, but the whereabouts of the rest of the sundial is currently unknown. (Anne Cassells, 24 September 2009).

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