Chapel, Ferniehurst Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971. Visitor centre.
Chapel, Ferniehurst Castle
- WRENN ID
- vast-step-clover
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1971
- Type
- Visitor centre
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
17th century; re-roofed 1935. Oblong single storey and attic 3-bay visitor centre (formerly chapel) with Renaissance detailing. Rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings; buckle quoins to front, quoin strips to rear; steep crowstepped gables.
SE (FRONT) ELEVATION: 2-leaf boarded door in round-headed surround with long and short quoins and voussoirs and oval rustications; short dressings roll-moulded; imposts with dog-tooth carving; cornice surmounted by framed armorial panel bearing arms of 1st Lord Jedburgh and initials SD above AKAS (Sir Andrew Ker and Dame Anna Stewart).
Cross windows flanking with moulded stone mullions and transoms; moulded architraves with ashlar bands. 3 piend-roofed bipartite slate-hung dormers.
NE ELEVATION: gable-end with modern timber stairs to 1st floor roll-moulded doorway (formerly to laird's gallery); blocked and moulded oculus above.
NW ELEVATION: blank.
SW ELEVATION: gable-end with window in former doorway at ground.
Timber windows; 4-pane sash and case to dormers. Graded grey slates; steeply pitched roof; beak skewputts with ball carved from lower face. INTERIOR: refitted after fire.
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