Fettykil House, Norman Place, Leslie

Fettykil House, Norman Place, Leslie

A baronial house built in 1868 with additions around 1870 (possibly designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson) and a further extension in 1983. The building is 2-storeys with part attic accommodation and displays characteristic baronial features including crowsteps, a turret, machicolation, and corbelling. The exterior is constructed of squared and snecked ashlar with some harling, moulded string courses and cornices, stone margins, quoins, mullions, and stop-chamfered arrises.

The north elevation contains the main entrance, set deep within a round-headed doorway to the left of a lower projecting wing. A narrow window sits adjacent to the right, with a smaller slit window to the left featuring a trefoil gunloop and a corbelled corner to the stair block above, rounded at ground level. A gabled dormerhead breaks the eaves over the door with a small window to its right, while a plaque sits beneath a round-headed attic window in the crowstepped gablehead. A projecting bay to the right contains a small round-headed stair window to the left and a first-floor window set within a crowstepped gable. Two narrow gunloops appear on the return wall to the east, with a door to the west. A flat-roofed link below the round-headed stair window adjoins a further single-storey structure with attic space, extending to the outer right.

The principal south elevation displays a 5-bay arrangement (grouped 2-2-1) across two storeys. The recessed centre bay contains windows to right and left, with the first floor containing two small windows to the outer right and a window to the left beneath a gabled dormerhead breaking the eaves. A slightly advanced crowstepped bay to the right features a quadripartite chamfered window at ground level. The outer right section, which forms the south-east corner, sits below a corbelled and machicolated turret with a small centre light. The outer left section has been converted to a door, below a corbelled and chamfered corner with a prominent corbelled stack and further corbelling to the left beneath the skewputt. A round-headed window punctuates the gablehead. An advanced block to the left displays crowsteps to east and west with corbelling at the outer corners above a corner rounded at ground level. A projecting tower to the left features tripartite bow windows at ground and first-floor levels, a conical cap, and an ornate finialled dormer window. Bipartite windows occupy both floors to the right, with a modern dormer window inserted in the roof pitch. A recessed corner appears to the outer left.

The east elevation contains a slightly projecting centre crowstepped gable with a window to the right under stepped stonework forming a hoodmould that continues across the first floor. A window sits above, with a round-headed window at the gablehead and a stack projecting from the left crowstep. A large round-headed stair window occupies the right side with a low elliptical arched opening at ground level. The first-floor window to the left sits beneath machicolation with an eyelid dormer above.

The west elevation displays a crowstepped gable to the right containing tripartite windows at ground and first-floor levels with an attic window to the left. A lower recessed crenellated tower to the left contains a part-glazed centre door behind a lean-to porch, with a first-floor bipartite window to the left, a window to the right, and a further window in the re-entrant at both floors. A 2-bay single-storey extension to the outer left has a dormer window breaking the eaves.

The roofing comprises graded grey slates with terracotta ridge tiles and fish-scale slates to the turret apex. Ashlar coped skews, beak skewputts, and coped ashlar stacks with some cans complete the external detailing. Decorative iron finial, cockerel weathervane, and dated rainwater hoppers ornament the roof. All windows have been replaced with plate glass glazing in modern uPVC.

The interior displays classical detailing with occasional gothic elements. A lobby with arched doorhead opens onto a stair; the heavily moulded doorcase to the circular stair features trefoil-section jambs. The dining room contains a black marble fireplace, ornate cornice, and a niche positioned between south-facing windows. Many rooms retain working shutters and wainscot panelling lines the inner hallway.

To the north-west of the property sits a walled kitchen garden bounded by a high coped and stepped brick wall. An ashlar building with cat-slide roof and ball finial stands to the east. To the south lies the remains of a terraced garden with coped boundary walls.