Gatepiers And Gates, Otterburn Including Boundary Walls

Otterburn, built around 1856, is a detached villa located along the Shore Road in Blairmore, and is one of several similar marine villas in the area. The villa is a 2-storey, 3-bay asymmetrical design. The front (east) elevation features fine ashlar stonework with Gothic detailing, notably on the pierced stone galleries. The advanced gabled right bay has a ground-floor canted bay, a hood-moulded tripartite window above, and an armorial panel in the gable apex. The central entrance has a stepped hood-mould and a roll-moulded reveal, with a single half-dormer above. A canted bay is located to the left of the entrance, also with a half-dormer above. Round, basket, and Tudor arches are used for the windows. Stone galleries with intersecting-arched corbels and pierced quatrefoil decoration are positioned above the ground-floor bays. A single-storey, piended-roof extension is at the rear of the house. The front elevation uses stugged ashlar sandstone, with chamfered long and short quoins, and probably harled rubble to the rear and sides. The roof is covered with grey slate. Most of the windows are replacement timber, stained glass panes are present. Stone gablehead stacks are topped with polygonal clay cans.

Access to the interior was not possible during a resurvey in 2004.

To the south of the house is a 2-storey coach house with a depressed coach arch on the ground floor and a round-headed window above. A short range of single-storey outbuildings are located to the rear of the coach house. A rubble boundary wall surrounds the property. The main entrance is via a cast iron gate positioned between gatepiers which are decorated with bunched colonettes and quatrefoil decoration on the capstones. The house, including the rear extension, has survived in its original form as depicted on the first edition Ordnance Survey map.