Bridge, gatepiers and boundary walls, Broxmouth Park

Probably James Nisbet, circa 1775 and possibly

incorporating the earlier house. 2-storey, classical

U-plan mansion with raised basement in falling ground to

N. Harled with grey and red sandstone ashlar dressings.

Band course at ground floor level; moulded cornice below

ashlar parapet.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: 2-storey. Slightly advanced

pedimented bay at centre with raised quoins. Tripartite

doorway with panelled 2-leaf door and decorative

fanlight. Single storey, Roman doric columned portico,

probably added later. Tripartite window at 1st floor. 3

bays flanking to each side with tall ground floor

windows, smaller at 1st floor.

W ELEVATION bowed, full-height bay at centre in ashlar,

probably added later, with French windows at ground

floor and to basement. Decorative later 19th century

wrought-iron balcony with later ram's horn stair

adjoined. 2 bays flanking to each side with windows at

each floor.

E ELEVATION: 6 bays to main house with regular windows at

basement, ground and 1st floor; lower, recessed 2-bay

addition at N end and curtain wall remainder of former

3-storey 7-bay gabled extension to wing (demolished

after 1955 and a later addition). Garage doorways

inserted to basement of main house at right and 2

recessed bays.

N (COURTYARD) ELEVATION: formerly enclosed by coped

rubble wall at N end. Full-height rectangular stair

projection in re-entrant angle by W wing with small

oculus and tall stair windows. Wide doorway at ground at

centre; regularly windowed bays to remaining elevations.

Doorway at right of recessed 2-bay eastern extension.

Harled lean-to garage set on site of demolished

extension. Small-pane glazing pattern to sash and case

windows. Grey slates to piend roofs with ashlar ridge

tiles; coped red sandstone ashlar ridge stacks.

Cast-iron arrowhead and urn finialled railings by

basement area, flanking S elevation to E and W.

Decorative lamp standards to drive, dated 1902.

INTERIOR: fine chimneypieces of original and mid 19th

century dates.

PARK WALLS AND GATEPIERS: red rubble sandstone boundary

walls enclosing policies and deer park of Broxmouth, and

farming boundary with golf links. Several gateways with

rusticated ashlar piers and moulded coping. Deer park

was landscaped in 1845.

BRIDGE: sited by golf links over small burn; arched

sandstone span of about 3 metres in width, with boundary

wall as parapet to links side only.