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Latitude: 55.4896 / 55°29'22"N
Longitude: -3.4599 / 3°27'35"W
OS Eastings: 307854
OS Northings: 622722
OS Grid: NT078227
Mapcode National: GBR 448Y.RY
Mapcode Global: WH5TN.T8MY
Entry Name: Menzion Farm,palisaded settlement 1550m SW of
Scheduled Date: 29 July 1970
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM2771
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded settlement
Location: Tweedsmuir
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West
Traditional County: Peeblesshire
Circa 1893. Symmetrical classical double villa of 6 bays. 2
storeys, attic and basement. Polished ashlar, stonecleaned.
All windows with polished raised margins and transoms.
Central single storey 2-bay porch with architraved doorpieces
to E and W with carved frieze panel; bracketted cornice
and blocking course. Ground floor windows with frieze panel
and triangular pediment. 1st floor windows with bracketted
cills, bipartite over porch. Sash windows, plate glass glazing.
Band courses at ground and 1st floor cills, at 1st floor
transom level and lintels. Eaves strings, plain eaves cornice.
Steeply pitched and platformed slate roofs with tripartite
pedimented timber framed dormers.
Droved ashlar flanks with windows detailed as above. To W
external flight of steps to 1st floor flat (modern alteration).
Tall corniced wallhead stacks flank tripartite dormer window.
Rear elevation with 2 single windows detailed as above with
balcony at ground linking full-height 5-light square bay
windows, corniced and with balustraded parapet. Dormers as
above.
Low coped ashlar wall to garden with square corniced gatepiers supporting cast-iron lamp brackets.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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