Glenferness House

Mansion house and estate buildings, Archibald Simpson, 1844-45. Alterations and additions to mansion, A. & W. Reid, 1869.

Traditional Norwegian houses 1890.

House; extensive 2-storey house, facing east/west; mixed grey

and pink rubble, tooled granite dressings. Main east front;

simplified classicism, 2-storeys, 2 wide pedimented advanced

outer bays, 4 narrower recessed central bays; screen linking

outer bays now glazed with later projecting porte-cochere with

Roman Doric columns. Single storey (1869) irregular range

extends to north, linked to 1 of 2 traditional timber Norwegian

single storey houses which flank outer wings, set at angles to

form semi-circular entrance front.

Garden front (west); asymmetrical massing centres on 3-storey

near centre Italianate tower, with re-entrant at right infilled

between tower and SW gable with later (1869) 2-storey, 3-bay

dining room with long windows in ground floor.

Single canted bay window rises full height in south gable.

Various 1869 service wings to north. 8- and 12-pane glazing;

bracketted cornices to some ground floor windows; band courses;

corniced ridge and end stacks; projecting, joisted eaves,

slate roofs.

Interior; some original cornices and chimney pieces; library

at SE shortened in 1869 to accommodate passage leading to

1869 single storey billiard room. Decorative cast-iron

balustrade to staircase.