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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/73815
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Johnstone
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
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.