Greenhouse, Logie House

Logie House is a substantial mansion that began as a 16th-century tower house and was substantially remodelled and enlarged over subsequent centuries. The building underwent a major classical remodelling in 1807 and later received 20th-century alterations by architect Robert Lorimer. It now stands as a 25-bay, 2 and 3-storey symmetrical classical mansion, divided into three separate houses. The structure combines coursed exposed stone and harling, with base and eaves courses throughout.

The principal north-west elevation presents a formal composition with a central 3-bay piended block featuring a harled finish and stone surrounds to all openings. The advanced centre bay contains a central door with a moulded ashlar surround, semi-circular fanlight, and flanking Tuscan pilasters beneath a plain entablature. Ground floor windows flank the doorway, while the first floor displays three arched recesses containing rectangular windows, and the second floor has three plain windows. The returns to left and right each contain two ground floor windows, a central first floor window with a string course below, and a central second floor window. Flanking the central house are 2-bay piended sections set back on either side, each with a combination of ground and first floor windows set into arched recesses and two second floor windows. Beyond these sit identical 2-bay, 2-storey sections with arched recesses to all windows and a continuous string course below the first floor level. The elevation extends further with a 6-bay, 2-storey section to left and right, where all openings are set into arched recesses; the upper storey on this section is obscured by trimmed ivy. Terminating the front elevation are single-bay, 2-storey pavilions, each with a central door in an arched recess topped by decorative swags, flanked by plain pilasters with entablature at one-and-a-half storeys. Above each pavilion door sits a semi-circular arched recess containing a circular quatrefoil window, again flanked by plain pilasters. A cornice surmounts the entire north-west elevation, raised and punctuated by numerous small arched recesses at the centre and terminating bays.

The south-west elevation is a single room width to the gable wall, featuring a central ground floor window and a cornice string course at one-and-a-half storeys. At the upper storey, a central arched recess contains a circular quatrefoil window. The cornice here has a raised central section punctuated by small arched recesses.

The south-east or garden elevation is near symmetrical, with a central 3-storey, 3-bay stone bow from which garden steps lead to a central glazed door, flanked by windows. The first floor displays three tall round-headed windows with moulded cill courses, while the second floor has three windows with band and string courses below. The central section features advanced stone margins, with a string course above the second floor windows extending across the bow and margins. Flanking this are 3-storey, 2-bay harled sections with stone quoins and string courses below the cornice. Each of these sections contains two ground floor windows; the left section has a circular window to the right (obscured by plant growth), while both have two round-headed first floor windows with tabs and keystones and a single circular window each. The second floor of each has two windows with ashlar string courses below and plain ashlar eases courses; ashlar surrounds frame the windows. Beyond these, flanking stone 2-storey bowed sections feature raised surrounds to their windows, with three ground floor windows and three round-headed first floor windows with moulded cill courses to each bow. A 2-storey, 5-bay harled section adjoins the left bow section, containing two windows to the left and a central glazed door at ground floor, with five irregularly placed first floor windows. To the right of the stone bow sits a harled section with a window to the left and glazed door to the right at ground floor, and a first floor window above. The centre of the south-east elevation features an advanced 2-storey, 3-bay bowed section with stone quoins, two ground floor windows to right and left, and three tall first floor windows above. A plain stone eaves course and string course running below and across the quoins complete this section, which also has ground floor and first floor windows in its left and right returns, and a further ground floor and first floor window set back to the right. The elevation terminates with pavilions featuring stone arches and harled, recessed centres. The left pavilion has a plain ground floor and an arched first floor window with ashlar surrounds and cill course; the right pavilion is identical but with a ground floor glazed door and windows instead. A cornice surmounts the entire south-east elevation, with stone semi-circular detail to the central bow and raised central section, punctuated by small arched recesses to the pavilions.

The north-east elevation is one room deep, featuring a blocked central ground floor window, droved flush quoins in tooled stone, and harling in places. It is surmounted by a cornice with a raised central section punctuated by small arched recesses.

The windows are a combination of 12 and 2-pane timber sash and case windows to the north-west elevation, with predominantly 2-pane windows but some 12 and 15-pane timber sash and case windows to the garden elevation. Doors are timber to the north-west elevation, most with two glazing panes set into the top; the garden elevation features mainly glazed doors. The roof comprises piended grey slate to the central 11 bays at different levels, semi-conical slate roofs to the smaller bowed sections on the garden front, and flat roofs to the terminating pavilions and south-west infill wing, with a piended roof to the south-east far bay section. There are 11 corniced stone chimney stacks in total, featuring polygonal and circular clay cans.

The interior retains much of its original character. A small square entrance hall features doors in each arched wall, with panelled timber doors and reeded decoration to the architraves; semi-circular recesses sit above each door. The floor is black and white marble, while the ceiling is ribbed cross vaulted with thistle decoration to the ceiling rose. Servant bells for each room remain in the corridor leading to the side door. A thick former exterior wall of the pre-1610 tower house is visible to the west of the central section, with the 1610 house interior visible in a room attached to this wall. Two vaulted bedroom ceilings, possibly also from 1610, remain. A rear staircase from the north-west side entrance serves the present first floor dining room and kitchen, where a servant's box bed recess is visible. The grand staircase, situated to the north-east of the entrance, features a black and white marbelled floor with Frosterly marble skirting. Decorative cast-iron Carron balusters support the staircase, while plaster wall panelling with reeded design adorns the walls. Ornate early 19th-century plastered ceiling and cornice decoration appears throughout, with geometric patterns and rose designs with modillions featured in the drawing room. Two fireplaces in the drawing room have marbled surrounds with lion's head details (the Hunt family crest) and pilasters. Reeded designs are repeated in the dining room window surrounds with gilded lion's heads. Many panelled window shutters remain throughout. Lorimer's contributions include a ceiling with a shallow dome feature and patera in each corner to the first floor bedroom to the east, copper fire screens, metal radiator grilles, and some door furniture.

The garden features tall brick walls extending from the south-east gable ends of the house. An early 19th-century balustraded wall running parallel to the house marks the beginning of the vegetable garden to the south-east. An early 19th-century greenhouse stands to the east, with a low stone wall enclosing the far south-east end of the garden, though railings are missing. Two doors are set into the south-west wall.

Gatepiers are situated to the north-east, in line with the principal house entrance. A low quadrant stone wall adjoins one pair of carriage gatepiers with identical adjacent pedestrian gatepiers; post-war metal gates infill the opening. The piers, which rest on bases, are chamfered and panelled, topped with pyramidal coping stones featuring semi-circular details at each face.