Summerhouse, Ravenswood is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 July 2010. Summerhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Summerhouse, Ravenswood

WRENN ID
sharp-baluster-nightshade
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 July 2010
Type
Summerhouse
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Circa 1809 (see Notes) with alterations circa 1885 and 1892. Single storey, 3-bay, single-room summerhouse with pedimented entrance bay (W ELEVATION) and canted to rear with round-arched window, located on a promontory above the River Tweed to the N of Old Melrose House. Freestone rubble with pale ashlar dressings. Cill course; eaves course and moulded cornice. Margined quoins. Projecting lintel over doorway with ball-finial to moulded pediment above. Tall, coped wallhead stacks to N and S elevations.

INTERIOR: fine, high Victorian interior decorative scheme with timber coved ceiling (fallen in, 2009). Roll-moulded canopied chimneypiece with scrolled cast-iron ornament; tiled floor and glazed tile walls. Timber panelled shutters and window surrounds.

Detailed Attributes

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