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Factor's house, still in use, begun in 1859 and extended in 1872. Gavenwood was built for John Hannay and his wife, who was factor to the Earl of Fife 1854-90. The house was built around a well, which is now enclosed in the rear service courtyard. It is a two-storey with basement, three-bay house, constructed from squared and coursed whinstone with contrasting cream sandstone ashlar dressings, a base course, cill course at the first floor and an eaves course. There are stone mullions to the bipartites. The south-west elevation has a gabled bay, advanced at the centre, and a round-arched, pilaster-flanked doorway with a keystone deep-set, door with a strip fanlight. Above the door is a first floor window, and there are ground and first floor windows in the flanking bays. A single-bay wing is recessed to the east, with a window to each floor. The north-west elevation is three-bay with a bipartite to each floor at the centre and full-height canted windows flanking. The south-east elevation has a gabled wing to the south with a window to each floor and a blind quatrefoil to the gablehead. There is a window to each floor on the return and a window to the basement. There are two wings projecting at the rear, enclosed by high walls forming a service court. The piended roof has grey slates with over-hanging eaves. Corniced ashlar stacks have divided flues and decorative cans. There is a pair of square ashlar, pyramidal capped gatepiers to the south-west.
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