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House, still in use, built in the later 19th century. It is a two-storey, four-bay, L-plan house with a corner tower, and is constructed from tooled coursed granite with stugged dressings, a timber eaves course, pierced bargeboards and predominantly small-pane upper sash with plate glass to the lower sash windows. The graded purple-grey slate roof has a lead ridge with corniced gablehead stacks and a coped wallhead stack with circular cans and cast-iron rainwater goods. The principal south elevation has a canted three-light window with a battered base to the ground floor and a bipartite set in a gable to the first floor above to the outer east bay. At the penultimate bay to the east is an architraved doorway with a panelled timber door flanked by timber pilasters and leaded glass panels, with a stained glass fanlight reading 'St. Lesmo Tower' and three stone steps to the door. Above this is a window set in another gable. The penultimate bay to the west has a window to the ground and within a third gable. There is an octagonal tower to the bay to the outer west, with five windows to the ground and first floors and a spire with a cast-iron weathervane. The east elevation is single bay with a two-bay addition to the north. There are off-centre windows to the ground and first floors of the single bay and regular fenestration to ground and first floors of the addition. The north elevation is two-bay, with the bay to the east obscured by an addition. There are three boarded timber doors to ground floor, two at the west with a glazed panel and another in the east return. The first floor has a central window and a bipartite window to the west. The west elevation is single-bay, with an off-centre window to the north at the ground and first floors and the tower is to the outer south. There is a rubble boundary wall to the south and east with rubble coping, with stugged, square-plan granite gatepiers to the centre of the south wall with corniced necks and square caps. To the west the walls are swept down to a broad opening. St Lesmo was supposedly a holy hermit who lived in Glen Tanar, and introduced Christianity to the area.
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