Gates And Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Tillycorthie Mansion House Including Walled Garden, Udny

John Cameron, 1911-12 (dated 1911); contractor James Scott and Company, Aberdeen; some 1900 interior detail by George Bennet Mitchell reclaimed from Dunecht; ongoing restoration early 21st century. Unusual early concrete 2-storey and basement, 5-bay, U-plan with enclosed centre courtyard forming rectangular-plan, sub-baronial mansion house built as 'Spanish Villa' for Bolivian tin magnate (see Notes). Narrow crenellated towers, slim conical-roofed bartizans, crowstepped John Cameron, 1911-12 (dated 1911); contractor James Scott and Company, Aberdeen; some 1900 interior detail by George Bennet Mitchell reclaimed from Dunecht; ongoing restoration early 21st century. Unusual early concrete 2-storey and basement, 5-bay, U-plan with enclosed centre courtyard forming rectangular-plan, sub-baronial mansion house built as 'Spanish Villa' for Bolivian tin magnate (see Notes). Narrow crenellated towers, slim conical-roofed bartizans, crowstepped gables and some fine interior detail. Hennebique concrete, lime harled 2006, margined openings. Band courses, corniced windowheads, broad crenellated wallhead screening glazed courtyard (see Notes), mutuled crenelations to centre tower. Concrete mullioned bipartite and tripartite windows; hoodmould with label stops.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: symmetrical principal elevation to SW incorporating 3 stage centre tower with 2 narrow lights at ground, tripartite stair window under dated stepped hoodmould and corbelled canted window at 1st floor. Flanking slightly recessed bays (fronting courtyard) each with full-width part-glazed sliding timber screen doors and dividing concrete piers at ground (see Notes) giving way to 3 windows in screen wall at 1st floor. Courtyard covered by pitched glazed roof. Outer gables each with corniced square-plan bay rising through ground and 1st floor and bartizaned angles; full-width conservatory projecting at ground right. Further, taller square tower to rear elevation.

Plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows (some replacement) throughout. Grey slates with small rooflights, fishscale pattern and decorative cast iron cockerel weathervanes to conical roofs. Banded and coped concrete stacks with full-complement of clay cans. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: much fine interior detail retained or reinstated during restoration (21st century). Decorative plasterwork; timber panelling and oak doors. Neo-Adam Christmas Room (former drawing room) with painted wall and ceiling panels. Billiard room retains original carved timber chimneypiece but some carved figures removed.

WALLED GARDEN: walled garden and terrace to SW of house. Coped rubble with terraced walls of large squared rubble blocks, snecked and flat-coped.

GATEPIERS, GATES AND BOUNDARY WALLS: rock faced, pyramidally-coped, square-section gatepiers with decorative ironwork pedestrian and vehicular gates; flat-coped snecked rubble quadrant and boundary walls.