Burnfoot Hall Nursing Home (Formerly Rickerby School)

Style of Walter Newall of Dumfries. Built 1830/40

incorporating existing house, moderately large neo-Tudor

country house, now a school. Main elevations with advanced

wide and narrow gables with hood-moulded mullioned/mullioned

and transomed windows, shaped skews run horizontally over

skewputts and with spike finials. Red ashlar.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 5 bays, and symmetrically composed

with changing planes; castellated gothic central bay not

contemporary (?circa 1820), wide gabled outer bays,

intermediate bays (one with porch) with dormerheads. Deeply

recessed and slightly lower service wing right (not seen on

approach) with unusual gable finial with onion.

Long W elevation with canted window in advanced central

gable, 2-storey narrow square tower left rises above main

eaves level and has steep pyramidal fish-scale slated roof.

Axial stacks with diamond flues; all roofed with graded

slates. Some late 19th century additions to N, to service

court.

Courtyard buildings (one with 1798 lintel) now mostly

derelict: stables listed separately.

INTERIOR: elaborate late 19th century work including ceiling

and cornice plasterwork and timber panelling. Spacious main

stair hall (?contemporary with castellated S-facing bay) with

(?later) lantern, scale-and-platt stone staircase with

decorative cast-iron balusters, 3-light coloured glass window

(at roof level) with Tudor-arched hood-mould.