Mains Of Fasque House Including Ancillary Buildings And Gates, Fasque

Mains of Fasque House is a well-detailed estate house dating from the mid to later 19th century, with extensions built around 1900. It is situated at the main southern entrance to the policies of Fasque House. The house is composed of a two-storey and attic, three-bay gabled main block, an estate office wing of single-storey and piended design, and a single-storey, pavilion-roofed wing – all located to the rear. The main block is constructed from coursed and squared narrow red sandstone blocks, with contrasting stugged sandstone quoins and margins; the sides and rear use snecked rubble of red sandstone and black freestone. The building features a base course, deeply overhanging eaves with decorative brackets, and voussoirs and hoodmoulds to the roundheaded doorway and narrow lights. Stone and timber mullions are also present.

The principal, southern elevation is stepped and incorporates a broad gable to the left, featuring a canted window at ground level, a bipartite window on the first floor, and a narrow, roundheaded attic light. A narrower, gabled centre bay contains a three-part vertically-panelled timber door with a semicircular fanlight above, a narrow light on the return to the right at ground level, and single windows to each floor of a set-back bay to the right. The western elevation, facing the drive, shows a gabled two-storey bay set back on the left and the single-storey office wing on the right. The rear elevation features a pavilion-roofed projection, partially clad in horizontally-boarded timber.

The windows are timber sash and case, featuring four panes and plate glass, with coloured leaded glass to the narrow ground-floor light on the south side. Grey slates and metal rooflights cover the roof, complemented by coped ashlar stacks with decorative cans and cast iron finials.

The interior retains much fine detail, including moulded plasterwork cornices, architraved timber doors, panelled timber reveals and shutters, brass sash lifts, cast iron radiators, vertically-panelled timber dadoes, and decorative cast iron grates to many of the timber fire surrounds. An encaustic-tiled porch floor leads to a panelled screen door with coloured leaded glazing and fanlights, opening into a dado-panelled stair hall with a timber dog-leg stair, featuring plain balusters and decorative ironwork newel caps – a kitchen includes a bell box.

An early L-plan ancillary building is located to the southwest, featuring a hayloft and a Carmyllie slate roof over red sandstone rubble. Decorative ironwork gates form a two-leaf vehicular entrance at the west.