Stable, Traquair Manse

Rebuilt 1793-1794; additions and repairs 1814. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan former manse with later central porch and later 2-storey rear addition; courtyard range of outbuildings (including former stables and offices) to SW of house. Harled and painted (original construction material hidden) with stone window and door dressings.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-storey, 3-bay elevation with central harled enclosed porch, pitched roof with overhanging eaves and plain timber barge boarding, timber cross brace and decorative brackets to front angles, timber panelled entrance door leading to semi-glazed inner hall door; returns blind. Bipartites to left bay.

NW ELEVATION: to right, gabled end of main house with windows to 1st floor left and centre; later lean-to porch with door and window concealing left bay of original ground floor and partial ground floor of later 2-storey, 2-bay kitchen extension to left.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: main house to centre and left dominated by 2-storey canted window to left (bipartite main windows with stone mullions, single lights to returning cants), staircase window to 1st floor centre; advanced 2-storey, blind gabled-end of "kitchen extension" to right (windows to left return).

SE ELEVATION: gabled end of main house rising into gablehead stack.

Mostly 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows with some plate glass glazing in rear bay window; lesser pane glazing to smaller rear windows. Formerly three 2-pane cast-iron Carron lights to attic of main elevation replaced by 3 single pane modern Velux windows (central window smaller with larger windows to flanks). Open verge (skewless) pitched slate roof with lead flashing to main house; piended roof to range. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Tall harled gablehead stacks with plain later cans (some octagonal cans remain) and plain stone neck copes, small square wallhead stack to NE join of house and later extension.

INTERIOR: not seen, 2002 but interesting bedroom fire surround known to be in situ (timber and gesso with linden or lemon tree to centre panel, churches flanking and tulips surmounting the jambs.

OUTBUILDINGS (INCLUDING FORMER OFFICES AND STABLE): 1?-storey, rectangular-plan former stable range with gabled ends and to NE: doorway to right, rectangular-headed timber doored cart entrance to centre and small window to left with timber- boarded door to piend-roofed hayloft entrance breaking eaves. Single storey, rectangular-plan range to NW running parallel with larger range.