Architecture Notes

Event ID 832801

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NMRS REFERENCE:

House demolished c.1953

3 storey L shaped mansion, dated 1686 over windows, a low wall with lion-gate completing the square. Owned by the National Trust 1952; ground floor inhabited. Workings of nearby Woolmet pit have caused serious subsidence.

Reached by bus to Danderhall. Visible to left of Dalkeith Road

NMRS Printroom

W Schomberg Scott Photograph Collection Acc no 1997/39

general view of the disused house and tower.

Non-Guardianship Sites Plan Collection, DC28869- DC28873, 1954.

Despite the OS assertion that the house was extant in 1975 it was demolished in the ealy 1950's due to mining subsidence. Some of the carved stone was incorporated into the Castle of Mey, Caithness by Sinclair MacDonald Architects for HM Queen Elizabeth The Queenmother.

RCAHMS STG MARCH 2005