Blervie House

Blervie House is a substantial Edwardian classical mansion built between 1909 and 1911 by architect J M Dick Peddie, with service wing additions from 1907. The house is constructed of coursed rubble with tooled and polished ashlar dressings and margins. It features an east-facing entrance front and a west garden elevation.

The east front has 12 bays, with the center two and outer two bays slightly advanced. It is topped with a wide segmental pediment and has a porte cochere supported by two sets of paired Roman Doric columns. The entrance door is panelled and flanked by narrow sidelights. The first-floor windows are paired, featuring moulded lintels and Gibbsian detailing, with a coat of arms in the tympanum and channelled ashlar angle pilaster strips.

The west garden front is symmetrical, consisting of a two-storey and attic 10-bay design. The outer bays are wide and each has a shallow projecting bowed three-light window that rises full-height. The center two bays are defined by giant channelled angle pilaster strips beneath a wide segmental-headed pediment with a tympanum crest. There are long multi-pane glazed French windows in bays three and eight, and six segmental-headed dormers. The ground floor windows are longer than those on the first floor, featuring 12- and 15-pane glazing, with channelled ashlar quoins on all projecting bays and a deep ashlar base course. The house has panelled coped end and ridge stacks and piended slate roofs. A lower two-storey service wing from 1907 is located at the south gable.

Inside, the house has a spacious and austere interior with simple detailing. The central stair hall is vaulted and top-lit, featuring an arcaded screen supported by paired Roman Doric columns. The wooden staircase has balusters and a wide moulded handrail.

In the drawing room, there are simple chimneypieces at each end with mantel shelves supported by paired slender columns, and sliding doors that divide the room. The room also has simple moulded cornices, beaded panelled window shutters and doors, and moulded door frames.

At the road end of the long driveway are gatepiers, likely from 1776, which were moved to their current location from the former Blervie House, now Blervie Mains House. These tall square polished ashlar piers are panelled and topped with a deep moulded cornice and a stepped cap that supports a swagged urn with a fluted base. There are no gates.