Stable Offices With Coach House, Kimmerghame House

These stable offices and coach house, dated 1853 and designed by David Bryce, stand near Kimmerghame House. They form a near U-shaped stable court, with a deeper and taller central range. The building is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone, with chamfered arrises.

The outer gabled range of the stable court is a single-storey structure with a hayloft in the attic. The courtyard elevation features a stable door at the centre, above which is a small-pane fanlight. A hayloft dormer is set into the wallhead. The ground floor of the outer elevation is largely blank, except for a low, altered carriage projection to the right, which is buttressed and topped with ball finials and a modern pitched roof. Above this are two evenly spaced gabled wallhead dormer windows. Stacked chimneys are at both gable ends; a ventilator panel is in the gablehead facing the courtyard entrance, and a window (or blind window) sits above the entrance drive.

The taller, two-storey central range features three segmental-arched carriage arches facing the courtyard. A door is located to the left of the arches, and two widely spaced windows are situated above, framed by gabled dormerheads. A tall, engaged circular tower is situated in the re-entrant angle between the projecting centre and the inner ranges, with arrislit windows suggesting a stairwell within. The outer elevation of this range falls with the ground and features a battered buttress dividing the bays; both bays have gunloops at ground floor level, relating to the carriage house. A gabled bay is to the right of the round tower, with a gablehead window. A gabled dormerhead frames the first-floor window to the left; the outer angles of the building are rounded and corbelled to square before the eaves.

The stable/accommodation range’s elevation facing the courtyard has been altered and includes a large garage door. A taller gabled corner block joins the central range and is slightly advanced, with a window to both floors. A stone birdcage bellcote rises from the advanced inner corner, with a bell in situ. Shoulder-arched openings are present, along with a pyramidal stone roof. Windows are set in the two lower bays flanking the centre and right, with pedimented and finialled stone dormers. A boarded window is located in the gablehead facing the service court.

The windows throughout are timber sash and case windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roofs are covered in graded grey slate with stone ridges, and the conical roof of the tower has a leaded ball finial. The interior was not inspected in 1997.