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House, later in use as a school and now in use as a religious centre, built in 1884-85 by A. Marshall Mackenzie (of Matthews and Mackenzie) for Alexander Geddes ('The Chicago Grain King'). It is a Baronial building, with the western part being two-storey with a flat battlemented roof, rounded angles corbelled to square at the first floor, a porch to the west side and an oriel to the centre south end. The eastern part is two-storey basement and attic, with a pitched roof and crowsteps. It is constructed from dark rockfaced granite with light dressings and mullioned and transomed windows. To the west of the house is a walled garden, The OS 2nd edition also shows greenhouses and a fountain.
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