Manse, Gamrie

1830-31. Probably William Robertson, Elgin. 2-storey over

raised basement, 3-bay house with later 19th century rear

wing (probably A and W Reid, Elgin) forming L-plan. Harled

rubble with tooled and polished ashlar margins and dressings. Symmetrical frontage with centre entrance with bracketted

cornice and panelled door; deep ashlar base course; long

ground floor windows. Single centre ground and 1st floor

window in NW gable, similar blocked windows in SE with later

19th century additional fenestration. Projecting bowed

stairwell in centre of rear rising above wallhead to

terminate as bowed and piended roof.

Later rear piended dormer; also late 19th century canted rear

dormer contemporary with 2-storey, 2-bay rear wing.

12-pane glazing to original house, 2-pane to later wing.

Coped end and wallhead stacks; slate roofs with projecting

eaves front and rear. Decorative (circa 1830) cast-iron

spearhead railings enclose lightwell and access to raised

basement; fluted stiffeners with fluted finials.

INTERIOR: entrance lobby leads to stairhall; drawing room and

dining room left and right; deep moulded and panelled

skirting boards; beaded panelling to windows and doors;

simple ceiling cornices; no original chimneypieces survive in

principal public rooms. Curved staircase with simple

balustrade.

STEADING: 1830-31. Single storey, U-plan range of byre,

stables and gighouse. Entrance to court flanked by square

tooled rubble gatepiers with flat caps; slate roofs.

WALLED GARDEN: 1830-31. Rubble rocked garden; roughly

dressed cope to walls.