Leuchie

1779 to 1785, 3-storey classical mansion incorporating

foundations of earlier house, with vaulted cellar, almost

doubled in size and rendered asymmetrical by enlargement

circa 1860, including low entrance and extensive kitchen

offices. Red rubble sandstone, formerly harled, with grey

ashlar dressings to original house, with squared and snecked

stone for Victorian work. Raised base and band course and

rusticated quoins. Moulded cornice with die balustrade.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: (circa 1859) 5-bay. Centre and

flanking bays to left with tall ground floor windows; 1st and

2nd floor windows diminishing in size. Doric columned,

pedimented ashlar porch straddling 2 bays to right with

single windows each floor above.

S ELEVATION: (1779) 5-bay. 3 bays at centre in broad canted

projection with French windows at centre and tall 1st floor

windows with wrought-iron balconies. 2nd floor lights

diminishing in size as in flanking bays. Armorial tablet in

balustrade above centre bay.

W ELEVATION: full-height bowed bay with 3 windows to each

floor to right originally centrally placed; additional 2 wide

bays to N. 2 bays to left (circa 1859) with tall ground floor

windows diminishing at 1st and 2nd floors.

E (SERVICE) ELEVATION: full-height bowed bay of original 1779

house to left with basement cellar door, blank ground floor

bay at centre, blind windows at 1st and 2nd floor at centre.

Irregular piend roofed projections from later house

extension, including 7-bay wing. Single storey outhouse

projections to left and right of service court.

12-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows with

Victorian plate glass sashes to ground floor windows. Moulded

coping to broad ashlar dressed stacks, 2 pairs linked on

original house; decorative cans. Piended slate roofs with

lead flashings.

INTERIOR: exceptionally fine interior decoration. Stone

flagged hall to original house with cantilevered stone stair,

classical plaster medallion and exuberant classical

plasterwork in coombed ceiling above. Strong Adamesque style

throughout. Pedimented doors leading off hall at centre to

oval rooms in canted bays. Marble chimneypieces, one with

tablet of Bacchus and Ariadne by Flaxman. Plasterwork by

James Nisbet; ceilings in late Adam form. New hall and dining

room added at ground in circa 1859 work.

Partly terraced garden to S with stone steps. Formerly

lavishly planted grounds.