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Mansion house, still in use, set within a designed landscape (NO75SW0042). It is the third in a series of castles. The first, known as Black Jack Castle, was built on the coast to the South-East (NO75SW0001). The second has been incorporated into what is presently the walled garden (NO75SW0043). The present castle was built in 1823-4 for Peter Arkley, who bought the estate in 1811, and designed by James Gillespie Graham. It is an asymmetrical mansion, built in a castellated Tudor-Gothic style. The main two-storey and attic block is rectangular with a corbelled crenellated wallhead, and with square towers to three of the corners and two larger towers to the South-West corner. The square towers have three-storeys, with a pointed slit window to each stage, decreasing in size from the ground to the second floor. There is a round tower at the South-West corner that is also three-storey, but is larger than the square towers. It has round-headed windows, again decreasing in size from the ground to the second floor. The ground and first-floor windows are hood-moulded, and there is a string-course between the ground and first floor. At the North-East angle of the tower is another tower, taller still than the round tower, but still of three storeys. The ground floor of the tower is square, with a rectangular hood-moulded window. The tower is then octagonal to the first and second floors, which contain slit windows in the same style as the square towers. All the towers have a corbelled crenellated wallhead in the same style as the house. The main entrance to the house is on the West-facing elevation. There is a projecting heightened off-centre bay, with a large entrance porch at its ground floor. The porch contained a Tudor-arched entrance, flanked by columns. The porch has a corbelled crenellated wallhead in the same style as the rest of the main block. Above the porch is a large oriel window containing three Gothic lights, itself also surmounted by corbelled crenellations. To the North of this the elevation has two bays with hood-moulded rectangular windows that are larger at the ground-floor than the first. To the South of the porch there are three bays. The first-floor windows are the same as to the North, but the ground-floor windows are pointed. The South-facing elevation has two bays. The first floor windows are the same as those seen on the West elevation, but the ground floor has a pointed-headed window to the West and a rectangular window to the East, all under hood-moulds. The three-bay North elevation has asymmetrical fenestration. To the West are broad windows containing three mullioned Gothic lights. The central bay has a single narrow slit window to each floor, in the style of the square towers. The East bay has rectangular windows, larger at the ground-floor. To the rear of the house is a service court. There are lower two-storey wings projecting to the East from the North and South of the main block, both with corbelled crenellated wallheads and rectangular windows. The Southern wing is shorter, and has a single-storey L-plan wing extending from it, enclosing the rear court. Within the court, against the East wall of the main block, is a low 1890s addition. A low wall extends to the North from the North-East corner of the rear court, ending with a square bastion with stone cannons at its crenellated wallhead. There are piended slate roofs throughout. To the South of the house is a terrace, added in 1902, with a ha-ha wall dividing it from the rest of the designed landscape.
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NO75SW0003 - DUNNINALD CASTLE