Tormarton Court

Tormarton Court is a rectory, now a house, with origins in the late 16th century. It was significantly altered in the 17th and 18th centuries, and enlarged and remodelled around 1812 for Lord William Somerset, who was then Rector of Tormarton. Later alterations have also been made. The building is constructed of rubble, with stone dressings, and has stone tiled roofs (3-span to the rear. It is 2½ storeys high with 5 windows. The windows are sash windows. A round-headed doorway is to the second one from the left, featuring a moulded surround and impost blocks; it has a large 6-panelled door with a wrought iron fanlight. A smaller, similar door is to the right, set in a plain surround. The building has three gables; the central one is smaller than the outer ones. The outer gables have stacks, and the central gable has a blocked window and a pineapple finial. A cornice runs along the outer sides of the parapet, and there are raised long and short quoins. The left return has two bays to the right and four bays to the left (dating from the early 19th century), with a set-back. To the right, a two-storey section has two windows, along with a cornice and quoins. To the left is a four-window section with sash windows; two 2-light dormers have hipped roofs, a cornice and quoins. The right return has four bays from the early 19th century, with first-floor sash windows. The ground floor has a sash window with 15 panes, a French window with Gothic glazing bars in the overlight, and another 15-pane sash window. It has two hipped dormers, a cornice and quoins. A projecting bay is to the left, featuring a ground-floor 3-light stone window with a central ogee head and outer pointed segmental heads; it incorporates leaded lights, a glazed door, and a first-floor sash window. Above the window is a gable with a ball finial. The rear features three gables similar to the front, with outer stacks. A central gable has a 2-light casement and a ball finial. The rear also has an outer cornice and quoins; a two-storey canted bay has three 15-pane sashes at ground floor and three sashes at first floor, alongside a band course, cornice, parapet, coping and four small foliate urns. Inside, the ground floor rooms at the rear of the right return have heavy chamfered and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops; similar beams are at the first floor. The entrance hall has an open-well stair with a banded mahogany wreathed handrail, an oval lantern above, and wrought iron fanlights over panelled doors. There are Adam-style fireplaces, moulded cornices and shutters to the windows.