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Durn House Stables
Date 22 June 2011
Event ID 916384
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/916384
Single storey and loft, wide 5-bay stable and carriage house range. Rubble, ashlar dressings. Slightly advanced and gabled centre bay with large garage entrance slapped in ground floor. Single round-headed keystoned loft door with blocked imposts in centre of gable flanked by loft vents and with apex corniced bellcote. Doorway set in segmental recess in centre of outer bay at left (N); similar segmental entrance to carriage house in outer bay at right (S) single loft window above. Forestair at S gable with rubble parapet and round-headed recessed 'goose bay' in base, leads to loft entrance in S gable; plank door with 18th century hand-made latch with heart-shaped bracket. Later single storey gig house at N gable and low range of additional stables at rear. Slate roof.
Fine quality stables. Hay was dropped from loft through semi-circular openings to feeding bays below. Interior of stables similar to those at Gordon Castle, 1769-82, John Baxter, architect. Goose bay below external forestair housed geese which acted as 'watch dogs'. Unusual survival. (Historic Scotland)
