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Manor house and designed landscape built in 1864 by Alexander Reid for Peter Mortimer, who purchased the property in 1852, and was himself involved in the design. This house replaced an earlier house on this site that has been built in 1807. It is a rectangular single storey and attic building with a curved bay on the south side and a rear raised basement. It has a 3-bay E facing entrance front, with a centre doorway fronted by a curved Doric tetrastyle portico that is pedimented at the centre. Narrow side lights flank the entrance, and there are advanced tripartites with piended roofs in outer bays. There is a symmetrical S 3-bay garden front with an advanced 3-windowed bowed centre bay, fronted by a trellised verandah and flanked by advanced tripartites. 2- and 4-pane glazing is used, and small modern flat roofed dormers break the wallhead. There are corniced ridge stacks and a piended platform slate roof. The interior was altered by R. Carruthers-Ballantyne in 1936-7. It is depicted on the OS map of 1846 lying within a designed landscape, with an observatory to the south of the house and a walled garden to the west. Gallow Hill to the west lies within the policies. A U-shaped building lies north of the house. The home farm Mains of Inverugie lies to the east. It is a U-shaped range with a smaller U-shaped range within its south facing court. A horsemill lies against the north facing wall. An L-shaped building lies to the south on the south side and another smaller rectangular building to its west. Another rectangular range with central open court lies further east. By the 1888 map edition this building and the observatory have gone as well as the horsemill. Another building now lies to the north of the farmstead.
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NJ16NE0074 - INVERUGIE HOUSE