Chapel House, Preshome

HOUSE: Bishop James Kyle with William Robertson, 1830. S

facing symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay house. Rubble, tooled

ashlar dressings and margins. Centre door with simple later

wooden portico type porch. Regular 3-bay rear fenestration; 2

centre stair windows lighting upper flights in E gable;

mainly 4-pane glazing. Coped end stacks; slate roof.

Later single storey lean-to at E gable.

INTERIOR: centre entrance passage with parlour at left and

former dining room (now sitting room) at right.

PARLOUR: plain white marble chimneypiece; simple ceiling

cornice; centre painted ceiling rose with armorial within

foliated wreath enclosed by simple hexagonal painted border.

FORMER DINING ROOM (sitting room): plain grey marble

chimneypiece (as parlour); simple ceiling cornice.

1ST FLOOR: library and former archive with original shelving,

'pigeon holes' and cupboards.

GARDEN STORE: later 18th century, W facing 2-storey, regular

2-bay garden store, probably former pavilion wing to earlier

house. Rubble, tooled rubble dressings. Entrance to 1st floor

by forestair at N gable; off centre gable entrance to ground

floor in S gable. 9-pane glazing; centre ridge stack; piended

Banffshire slate roof.

GARDEN WALL: house and adjoining church enclosed by coped

rubble wall.