Gatepiers, House Of Cockburn, Glenbrook Road, Currie

Gatepiers, House Of Cockburn, Glenbrook Road, Currie

This is an early 19th-century house substantially altered and extended in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The architect Robert S Lorimer oversaw late 19th-century works, with further additions dating from 1939 and 1957.

The main structure is a 2-storey, 3-bay rectangular block with symmetrical, recessed pavilion additions from the late 19th century and a flat-roofed outer left wing from the 1930s–50s. The main block features rough cement render with ashlar dressings and margins, while later additions have concrete dressings and margins. The building is finished with an eaves band and cornice, quoins, and a balustraded parapet.

The north-east (main) elevation presents a 3-bay symmetrical front. A 2-leaf 9-panelled flush door with fanlight and inner half-glazed door sits at centre, enclosed within a doorcase topped by a triangular pediment and acanthus leaf cornice. Large canted windows flank the entrance—three 12-pane sash-and-case windows divided by pilasters. First-floor windows are symmetrically placed above, with the parapet featuring blind balustrading at its centre. Recessed bays project to left and right with symmetrically disposed windows and balustraded parapets. A 2-bay asymmetrical flat-roofed block projects to the outer left, marked by a datestone of 1939. A 1957 flat-roofed porch occupies the re-entrant angle with the 1930s block behind it. A band course runs above raised sills, with slightly stepped cement coping at the eaves. A bipartite window with concrete mullion appears at first-floor outer left, and a single window in the penultimate bay, with a window at centre ground and a ball finial at the corner.

The south-east elevation contains a 1937 block with 3 asymmetrical bays. An advanced shouldered stack and flue appear off-centre to the left, with another advanced shouldered stack and flue to the outer right.

The north-west elevation shows a gable to the outer left with its head outlined in ashlar. A lower block to the right has a wallhead stack at its centre, with windows at ground and first-floor levels to the left and a blank bay to the outer right.

The south-west elevation is a complex asymmetrical range of 9 bays. A lower piend-roofed block by Robert S Lorimer occupies the outer left, featuring an advanced ashlar canted window at ground level and a shaped parapet with ball finials. A first-floor window sits at centre, with windows at ground left and first-floor right on the right return. A 3-storey flat-roofed block stands to the right, with a gabled 2-bay block advanced at its centre and a single-storey gabled block advanced further right. Small windows are symmetrically disposed at the centre gabled block, with a single window at its gablehead. A casement window appears at ground outer left and a first-floor window above; a bipartite window with concrete mullion at first floor. Single windows occupy the bay to the right, followed by a single-storey gabled block to the outer right with a lead roof and segmental-headed multi-paned casement windows. A rubble wall immediately to the right divides the area from the kitchen block. A 4-bay asymmetrical block to the outer right comprises a 2-bay piend-roofed block with a flat-roofed porch at centre ground; windows are symmetrically disposed at ground and first-floor levels with a shouldered stack at centre. A flat-roofed block with stepped eaves coping adjoins to the right, featuring a door at ground with a 2-pane letter box fanlight, a narrow window to the right, and a timber bipartite casement to the outer right. A tripartite window with concrete mullions appears at first-floor outer right, with a narrow window to the left.

Windows throughout the main block are 12-pane sash-and-case; later additions feature 6-pane over 9-pane and 3-pane over 6-pane sashes. The roof is grey slate with piend roof wings at the rear; later additions have flat roofs. Shoulder and corniced wallhead stacks serve the building, with ashlar coping to skews at the gables.

The interior was not inspected as of 1993.

A balustraded ashlar garden wall runs from the north-west elevation around the side garden to the west, comprising an ashlar die with balustrading supporting a slab coping.

The boundary wall, gates and gatepiers are of principal note. The gatepiers are constructed from stugged sandstone with chamfered arrises, a cornice, and ball finials (the left finial is missing). A narrow pier to the outer left forms a pedestrian entrance alongside the main pier. The boundary wall is of rubble with semicircular coping. Decorative timber gates—both pedestrian and drive—feature latticed railed and arcaded tiers.