Cambusnethan House is a Grade A listed building in the North Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971. Mansion house.

Cambusnethan House

WRENN ID
dusted-baluster-elder
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
North Lanarkshire
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1971
Type
Mansion house
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

James Gillespie Graham, 1819 (roofless, interior totally gutted by fire). Two-storey with sunk basement, nine-bay, symmetrical, rectangular-plan, Tudor revival priory-style mansion house. Buttressed crocketed pinnacles and gabled central block with porte cochere, flanking wings with octagonal corner towers. Yellow ashlar sandstone. Base course, cill band to upper storey, corbelled cornice; stugged hoodmoulds to openings, pointed arch windows to ground floor, rectangular windows to upper floor. North (Principal) Elevation: porte cochere to central block with architraved Tudor arch entrance flanked with paired engaged colonnettes; similar opening to returns; balustrade and roof missing. Off-set diagonal buttresses with missing pinnacles, flanking gabled central block, multifoil oculi to crossgable above four-light Tudor arch window with loop tracery. Flanking double bays, terminating in three-stage, castellated towers with arrow slits. South (Rear) Elecation: mirror of north except: advanced canted bay to ground of central block below large square window; rectangular panels flanking the oculus window, pinnacles to butresses intact, wall to left bays ruinous; larger octagonal tower to left corner. East (Side) Elevation: four-bay, symmetrical, two bays to centre, bay to right slightly recessed, octagonal corner towers with doorways, large arrow slits and cross arrow slits. West (Side) Elevation: three-bay, asymmetrical; narrow single bay to centre, octagonal tower to left; advanced canted bay to right terminating in large octagonal tower with bipartite segmental arch windows to third stage. Windows and roofing destroyed. Interior: totally gutted by fire.

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