Building record MAB42157 - INVERCOWIE HOUSE, BARCLAY STREET, STONEHAVEN

Villa, still in use, built before 1804, probably incorporating 18th century fabric and with later alterations.

Villa, still in use, built before 1804, probably incorporating 18th century fabric and with later alterations. It is a two-storey with attic and raised basement, three-bay, symmetrical, rectangular-plan harled villa with ashlar margins, an eaves cornice and stone mullions. The grey slate roof has dominant harled gablehead stacks with polygonal cans and ashlar-coped straight skews. The principal south elevation has a centre bay at the ground with stairs and flanking ironwork railings leading to a four-panelled timber door with a sunburst-astragalled fanlight. Above the doorway is a single window at the first floor with a small semicircular-pedimented dormer window above. A further deep-set door is at the basement level opposite a rubble and brick vaulted cellar and under an oversailing stair, possibly with stair down to earlier fabric. The flanking bays each have full-height (including the basement) bowed bays, incorporating wide tripartite windows, with slightly smaller, conically-roofed, bowed tripartite dormers above. A recessed lower wing, a converted coach house known as Plas Newyd, adjoins to the east, and a further wall abuts at the west. The asymmetrically-fenestrated north elevation incorporates a vertically-boarded timber door and decoratively-astragalled fanlight to the centre bay at the ground, with a later piended outshot above. The lower wing is at the outer east. The low, gabled, east (Barclay Street) elevation has a deep-set, bowed tripartite window at the centre and a taller blank gable of the house behind. Internal features include decorative and plain moulded plasterwork cornicing, fluted clustered column mullions and a dog-leg staircase with turned timber balusters. The drawing room has a carved timber fire surround incorporating classical detailing and a delicately carved urn, swags and paterae to the overmantel and a decorative iron grate. The attic bedroom has an ornate cast-iron Baroque fireplace with a timber surround, and there are further timber fire surrounds with fluted detailing and horseshoe grates. The bathroom is timber-lined. Coped, rubble garden walls have a two-leaf, wrought-iron gate. There is a piend-roofed, harled former stable, with a vertically-boarded timber door. The interior is timber-lined with a polygonal pier and evidence of former loose boxes. A watching brief was carried out 2008 to the west, which included a section of the garden (NO88NE0138). No archaeological features or finds were recorded.

Period Notes
Listed 18/08/1972. Built by 1804, probably incorporating 18th century fabric and with later alterations.

Record last edited

Mar 29 2018 11:08AM