Description

Circa 1800. 2-storey and attic house over raised basement,
3 wide bays. Coursed pinned rubble front elevation and
flanks, harled rear, tooled ashlar margins. Painted polished
ashlar centre pilastered and corniced door piece framing
round-headed, keystoned doorway, approached by flight of
steps oversailing raised basement; flanked by full height 3-
windowed bowed bays with piended roofs. Symmetrical 3-bay
flanks (some windows blind); symmetrical wide 3-bay rear
with pedimented and slightly advanced centre bay and
long roundheaded centre stair window; tripartites in outer
bays of ground and 1st floors, the outer
lights of which are blind. 12-pane glazing in rear and side
elevations, later 2-pane in front windows. Band course
between raised basement and ground floor; cill band links all
1st floor windows; moulded eaves cornice, single piended
dormer each side gable; unfortunate small off centre modern
dormer in front elevation. Paired corniced ridge stacks;
piended slate roof.
Interior; original decorative plaster cornices; panelled
doors and moulded door cases; panelled chair rails in ground
floor rooms.

Statement of Interest

Present house, on earlier site, formerly called Clyne, a

Mackenzie estate linked with Findon across the Cromarty

Firth. Documentation concerning Mountgerald at least from

1714 in possession of owner.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Mountgerald at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q3293257

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2