Cherleigh

House, built between 1928 and 1929 by Frederick Forbes Glennie as part of the Thorpeness village development for Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie. The house is constructed of stone, brick, concrete, and timber, with a plaintile roof and an English Vernacular style. It is two storeys high with a dormer attic. The south front features exposed concrete to the ground floor, with Ketton stone slips. The main entrance is on the first floor, accessed via an exposed ladder staircase leading to the first floor of a projecting forebuilding. The ground floor of the forebuilding has a three-light stone mullioned window. The ladder staircase has pierced splat balusters and leads to a gallery beneath a pentice roof, supported by three turned timber posts. The first floor, including the forebuilding, is timber framed with brick nogging between the studs. The forebuilding and the main wall to the left each have a single three-light metal casement with leaded glazing. The gabled roof has a raking dormer fitted with a three-light leaded casement. A partly external gable-end stack is located to the west. The west gable has mullioned and casement windows, all with leaded glazing. The rear of the house has a three-storey gabled centrepiece. The interior has not been inspected. The house is part of a good group situated between the Ogilvie Almshouses and Westbar. Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie, the owner of the Thorpeness Estate and the originator of the village project, designed and sketched out the whole village and commissioned the architects involved.