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House of James Ogilvie, built in 1735, and steading. James Ogilvie was a master mason, and it can be assumed that he was the architect and builder of his own dwelling in which, in miniature, he includes details from the greater mansions on which he worked, creating a miniature version of the fashionable house of the time. It is a North facing 2-storey, 3-bay house, with later additions at the East gable and South elevation. There is a harled rubble exterior and ashlar dressings. The centre door in the North front is masked by later gabled wooden porch. The doorway has a moulded surround, as do all the front windows, which have been widened in the ground and first floor outer bays. There is symmetrical rear fenestration, and a small ground floor window each side of the centre door and in the centre of the first floor. They are all narrow, with plain chamfered jambs. In the West gable, there is a single ground floor, and long first floor. 8- and 12-pane glazing is used. There is also an oval oculus in the West gable that lights the loft, with 'James Ogilvie' carved above and 'Marjory Stewart' below. The end stacks have moulded cornices, with a narrow pulvinated stringcourse below the cornice, and a small ledge at inner face with a moulded underside. The detailing to the end stacks is unusual. The ledges probably assisting the cleaning of the chimneys, besides throwing rainwater away from the ridge. There are shaped skewputts, that at the North-West are dated 1735, and flat skews continuously moulded on the underside and splayed at the base to follow the line of the bellcast roof, which is constructed from Banffshire slate and has a stone ridge. There is a later single storey rubble extension at the rear, masking the rear centre entrance, and a single storey, 3-bay cottage at the East gable, with moulded architraves to the centre door. Both have end stacks and corrugated iron roofs. Inside, the house has a small circular cantilevered staircase with a moulded underside, and a polished wood balustrade. The moulding on the underside of the staircase is similar to that at Gordonstoun House (NJ16NE0006), re-modelled 1730, on which James Ogilvie he may well have worked. The original moulded chimneypieces are in the west ground and first floor rooms. There are simple moulded ceiling cornices, and a 'stake' and hris' (wattle, clay and straw) party wall in the loft. To the South-West there is a U-shaped South-facing steading, although in the 1st edition OS map it is only partially open, and in the 2nd edition OS map it is shown as square. The buildings have pantiled and corrugated-iron roofs, mostly piended, and large a pantiled piended dormer to the front elevation.
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NJ26SE0057 - PITTENSAIR HOUSE