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Former gig house and stables, currently disused, built in the later 18th century with later additions. The buildings lie to the North of the main house (NJ56NE0022), and consists a single-storey and loft, wide, five-bay stable and carriage house range. It is of rubble construction, with ashlar dressings, and has a slightly advanced and gabled centre bay with a large garage entrance slapped in the ground floor. There is a single round-headed keystoned loft door with blocked imposts in the centre of the gable, flanked by loft vents and with an apex corniced bellcote. The doorway is set in a segmental recess in the centre of the outer bay at the north, and there is a similar segmental entrance to the carriage house in the outer bay at the south with a single loft window above. The south gable has a forestair with a rubble parapet and round-headed recessed 'goose bay' in the base leading to a loft entrance. There is a plank door with an 18th century hand-made latch with heart-shaped bracket. At the north gable is a later, single storey, gig house and a low range of additional stables at the rear. The buildings have slate roofs. Inside comprises four-stalled stable accommodation, of which only the end mural trevis (stall partition) survives with a half round end post and urn finial. There are four semi-circular ashlar-lined hay-hecks fronted by racks and with a keystoned moulded arch. These rise through the wall to the loft above where they terminate in simple round-headed arches. There is also a moulded plaster ceiling cornice and centre roundel. The former harness/saddle/grooms' room is on the left, the carriage house on the right. The stables are of particularly fine quality, and are an unusual survival. The interior of the stables is similar to those found at Gordon Castle, (Moray HER NJ35NW0010) which were designed by architect John Baxter and date from 1769-82. Baxter may be the architect here. The goose bay below the external forestair housed geese which acted as 'watch dogs'. Standing building survey was carried out by Cameron Archaeology in November 2022 ahead of proposed conversion to a dwelling. At least four phases of development were recorded. The main building constructed in Phase 1 comprised three rooms on the ground floor and three above, with cart doors on the west-southwest frontage. In Phase 2 (probably the late 19th century) a room was added to the north-northwest end of the building, with a cart door . A window inserted into the west room of the original building has a graffiti date (1872 or 9) which may indicate the date of the alterations. A single storey building, now comprising three rooms, was also added to the west-south west side of the original building. An unroofed sileage pit was later added to the end of this building. A small concrete block extension was added in the southeast corner of the main building in the late 20th century.
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