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Raehills House, Architectural Fragments

Architectural Fragment(S) (17th Century)

Site Name Raehills House, Architectural Fragments

Classification Architectural Fragment(S) (17th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Lochwood Tower

Canmore ID 73815

Site Number NY09SE 42.01

NGR NY 0635 9432

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Johnstone
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Annandale And Eskdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

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Note (23 October 1990)

NY 0635 9432 NY09SE 42.1

Formerly entered as NY09SE 31.

In the S porch at Raehills House, there are a number of architectural fragments and a yett which have been removed from Lochwood tower-house (NY09NE 8).

The fragments comprise:

1. Five jambs from a lavishly-moulded doorway, bearing a chequer frieze and a quirked edge-roll.

2. A capital.

3. A dormer pediment bearing the initials SD I SM.

4. A ridge-finial.

5. Two skewputts, each bearing an anthropomorphic head.

6. A datestone inscribed 163{ }.

Visited by RCAHMS (IMS), 23 October 1990.

Listed as datestone.

RCAHMS 1997.

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