Architecture Notes

Event ID 861331

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT53SW 136.00 NT 50741 34737

NT53SW 136.01 NT 50729 34718 Conservatory

ARCHITECT: H O Tarbolton

The building was visited in September 2008 as part of the Commissioners Field Trip

This fine baronial mansion was commissioned by the mill owner Adam Lees Cochrane of Netherdale Mill to be built on the high ground overlooking his mill in the valley to the Northeast and Abbotsford to the South. William Hay, later of Hay and Henderson, designed the red sandstone house 1868-9 with an enthusiastic approach to style incorporating Gothic, French and Scottish details. Although approached through a housing estate it retains its landscape setting to the East and South. The very fine Mackenzie and Moncur conservatory appears to be contemporary with the house and remains largely unaltered. H O Tarbolton made minor alterations to the house between 1905-11.

The principal rooms and stair hall retain many of their original features but the high quality coloured glass in the entrance hall screen and stair window was most probably installed by H O Tarbolton in the early twentieth century.

Information from Buildings of Scotland, Borders. (2006) Cruft, Dunbar and Fawcett p. 313 and Historic Scotland Statutory List Description and Notes.

RCAHMS STG 2008