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Mansion house, including the adjoining walled garden, dating from various periods from the earlier 18th century with alterations in the 19th century. Two-storey and 3-storey, irregular plan mansion house, with an inner courtyard and classical, Jacobean and baronial details. The earlier 18th century building is 3-storey, rectangular with asymmetrical single-storey wings at the rear, perhaps incorporating earlier work at the southwest corner. The northwest wing is raised, refaced and extended as a dining room wing and the main staircase was reconstructed in the earlier 19th century. First floor oriel windows added in the mid 19th century. Various additions can be attributed to John Murray Robertson, in 1892. These include the shaped gable pediments, an angle turret to the original house, the entrance hall / billiard room / nursery wing at the east (porch added circa 1897), first floor bedrooms at the northeast wing, larders and various service extensions at the rear. Constructed of stugged courses at the south elevation of the original building and the 1892 addition, droved ashlar at the northwest wing, rubble built at the northeast wing with stugged and snecked additions, original stair gable at the north harled and margined, some 1892 additions at the north are painted brick. Slated roofs with piended and ogival at the 1892 additions. Sash and case windows throughout, mostly plate glass glazing, 4-pane at the second floor of the original house, 12-pane at the northwest wing and various ground floor windows at the rear, thick astragalled 12-pane and multi-pane at the stair gable, architraved at the south elevation, shouldered at the original house and mostly paired at the east extension. The original house has a wallhead band course, coped skews with skew blocks and end stacks. The east addition has a cill course at the ground, first and second floors, a moulded wallhead course and weathercock at the ogival roof, margined and keystoned oculus at the shaped gable. The south elevation is symmetrical, 3-bay, with the earlier 18th century original house to the west. A keystoned shoulder-architraved doorcase at the centre is flanked by narrow windows, with tripartite oriel windows above at the first floor. Associated with the house are the Coach House/Stables (NO43SW0010), Dovecot (NO43SW0074), Garage Cottage (NO43SW0011), Old Stable (NO43SW0012), Walled Kitchen Garden (NO43SW0013) and the Designed Landscape (NO43SW0017). The house may have been built to supersede Claverhouse Castle (NO34SE0003), situated to the south and east. Balmuir was owned by the Fothringhams of Powrie in the 15th century, passing to the Grahams of Meathie by the end of the 17th century. During the 18th century the Grahams, now of Balmuir adopted the surname Webster in compliance with a relative's will. It was the Websters who sold the estate to John Sharp, flaxspinner in circa 1872. Sharp engaged John Murray Robertson to extend Balmuir. The house now includes a separate property, The Flat, Balmuir House.
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NO43SW0009 - BALMUIR HOUSE, BALMUIR