2, Westgate

No. 2 Westgate is a house built between 1928 and 1929 by architect Frederick Forbes Glennie as part of the Thorpeness village development for Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie. The building features rendered and whitewashed concrete with stone details and has a pantiled roof. It stands two storeys high with a dormer attic and has a four-window range on the south facade. The ground floor is dressed with coursed, rough-cut York and Ketton stone, which rises at the west end to enclose the doorway. The doorway is designed as a depressed arch beneath a pointed relieving arch, leading to a recessed porch. The internal porch door is half glazed. The ground floor includes one four-light mullioned and leaded metal casement window and one two-light mullioned and leaded window. The first floor is lit by three metal cross casements with two and three lights, and to the left, there is an additional two-light mullioned window with leaded glazing. The gabled roof has three flat-topped dormers fitted with three-light metal casements, and there is a stack on the front roof slope set to the right of centre. Inside, there is a closed-string staircase with turned balusters. The house is part of a good group of buildings situated between the Ogilvie Almshouses and Westbar. Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie, the owner of the Thorpeness Estate, conceived the project, designed, and sketched out the entire village, commissioning the architects involved.