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Fairlie Castle

A Scheduled Monument in North Coast and Cumbraes, North Ayrshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.7543 / 55°45'15"N

Longitude: -4.8493 / 4°50'57"W

OS Eastings: 221286

OS Northings: 654892

OS Grid: NS212548

Mapcode National: GBR 31.BGNC

Mapcode Global: WH2N7.HM0J

Entry Name: Fairlie Castle

Scheduled Date: 26 February 1955

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Source ID: SM317

Schedule Class: Cultural

Category: Secular: castle

Location: Largs

County: North Ayrshire

Electoral Ward: North Coast and Cumbraes

Traditional County: Ayrshire

Description

John Henderson, 1842. 2-storey and attic 3-bay symmetrical villa with basement and 2-storey service block to rear. Cream sandstone, stugged ashlar front with droved dressings, squared and coursed rubble with stugged dressings to sides, service block with squared and snecked rubble. Base course, banded string course above ground floor; projecting band eaves course; corniced windows at ground floor.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: slightly projecting pedimented bay at centre, architraved doorway with consoled cornice, panelled door and rectangular plate glass fanlight; single corniced window at 1st floor. Outer bays with single windows to ground and 1st floor, glazed rectangular dormer to left bay. Secondary single storey ashlar entrance gateway, consoled pediment fronting glazed-in forestair to outer right.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey square-plan extension to left; secondary door to centre bay; single windows to remaining bays.

W ELEVATION: 2-bay; projecting bay to right with single windows to ground and 1st floor in advanced panel, single storey modern conservatory at ground floor; single windows to left bay, glazed rectangular dormer. E ELEVATION: 2-bay; projecting bay to left with enclosed half-glazed rubble forestair, single window at 1st floor, wallhead stack; single windows to right bay, glazed rectangular dormer. 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Piend and platform slate roof, metal flashings; 1 wallhead stack (see above), 2 coped central stacks, octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1992.

BOUNDARY WALLS: tall rubble wall to all sides with semi-circular coping, coped gatepiers and cast-iron pedestrian gate.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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