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Mansion house and walled garden, still in use, built to the south of Ballumbie Castle (NO43SW0003) in 1810 for David Miller. The mansion was extended and remodelled by James Findlay in 1902. It is shown on the 1st edition OS map as a rectangular building with a bowed central section on the south elevation, and a second rectangular projection on the north elevation. The rectangular walled garden is to the west, with a curved wall enclosing the west, south and east sides. There is a small rectangular building on the exterior of the north wall. On the 2nd edition OS map, there is a sundial within the walled garden, and building on the north wall has been extended to a much longer building. There are four additional small buildings and greenhouses at the north and west of the garden. To the north-west of the house is a small rectangular icehouse (NO 4464 3452). Current maps shows alterations and additions to the mansion, and the buildings and sundial associated with the walled garden have been removed. The icehouse is depicted as unroofed. It was originally a two-storey, basement and attic, rectangular-plan, classical-style mansion house, with a canted centre-bay. It was extended to the east and embellished to form an irregular-plan, Arts and Crafts / baronial-style house. It is constructed from harled rubble with ashlar and bull-faced dressings. The house also features a round-headed, hood-moulded entrance arch on the north elevation and a corbelled bartizan on the east elevation. On the south elevation there is a full full-height central canted bay, and a round tower corbelled to square. There are bull-faced irregular crow-steps at the gables and ashlar coped stacks. The walled garden has a round-coped rubble perimeter, with an ashlar segmental-arched entrance at the south with a moulded impost and corniced parapet. At the west there is a disused summer house from circa 1904. By 1991 there had been a fire in the mansion, leaving it as a roofless shell. It has since been restored and divided into flats
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NO43SW0155 - BALLUMBIE HOUSE