Shambellie House, New Abbey

David Bryce, architect. Dated 1856. Scottish Baronial mansion

house.

2-storeys with attics over raised basement. Squared white

granite blocks, partly cherry-caulked, contrasting red ashlar

margins, quoins, crow-steps, corbels and dressings. Gabled

porch in south west re-entrant angle below ground floor

level, door in lugged architrave, continuous string over

basement raised over plaque above door; 2 outer gables to

west elevation; twin gables to south; east elevation: 2

canted ground floor windows, that to right, in tall gabled

bay, splayed inwards at basement, corbelled to chamfer at 1st

floor, and to square at main eaves level; conical-roofed

bartizan to right; other window with ball finials, 2 1st

floor windows above with pedimented dormer heads; deeply

recessed right bay corbelled above ground floor,

conical-roofed turret in re-entrant angle, rising above

eaves, with weathervane finial. Sash windows with small

panes, central lugs to most window jambs. Coped wall-head or

apex stacks; slate roofs, with fish-scaling to conical roofs.

Interior (attics completed 1866 by James Barbour of

Dumfries, architect): some good timberwork (eg on stair) and

cornice plasterwork.