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Mansion house and site of earlier house, and walled garden. The original house on the site dated from the 12th Century, but the present house was built in 1640. The south east part is from 1640, with tower projections at the ends of the southeast wing and original doorway and corbelled centre chimney with Cumin coat of arms. A regular 3-storey, 9-bay front added to the northwest circa 1730 doubled the width of the house. Wings were added to the north and south following fire damage in 1910, designed by W Dalton Ironside (or Walker and Duncan) and Dr William Kelly. The principal interior room is a second floor ballroom with Roman Doric columns and a coved ceiling. The walled garden dates from circa 1730 and has a large formal layout, the walls with rusticated ball-capped gatepiers. There is a symmetrically disposed dovecot and gazebo, the latter with a dovecot at the roof. Both are rubble built in a square plan with pyramidal roof. The 1st edition map also shows a bowling green to the southeast of the house. Northwest of the house are offices. The house was later used as a boarding house for St Margaret's School for Girls.
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