Kirkwood

Walter F Lyon of London. Dated 1880-1881. Scots Baronial

mansion. Asymmetrical. Snecked bull-faced red ashlar with

polished dressings, margins, roll-moulding and corbelling.

Mostly 2 storeys with imitation tower house at SW with

conical-roofed corbelled angle turret, corresponding tall

wide gable and corbelled square turret towards E end of

house. Some windows mullioned and transomed, particularly at

ground, finialled and pedimented dormer heads break through

eaves; some gables crowstepped, others with skews with

finials or skewputts. Coped stacks; slate roofs. Advanced

gable on W flank, pedimented doorway in low block filling

re-entrant angle, all with continuous corbel table. N

elevation with large stair window, one advanced bay canted at

ground and corbelled to square below gable head.

INTERIOR: extensive timber panelling to halls, stair and

rooms; timber and marble chimneypieces.