Dunphail House

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Dunphail House is a villa near the Scottish village of Edinkillie in the Council Area Moray . In 1971 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists, initially in category B. The upgrade to the highest monument category A took place in 1987.

history

Dunphail Castle was built on the property before 1314 . The lands once belonged to the Comyns of Altyre line (see Altyre House ). They then went first to the Dunbars of Westfield and finally to the Grants of Grant. By marriage they came into the possession of Charles Cumming Bruce , who had Dunphail House built in 1828. As early as 1787 John Baxter was entrusted with a design for Dunphail House, but this was just as little implemented as John Paterson's concepts from 1818 and 1820. The Scottish architect William Henry Playfair was responsible for the design of Dunphail House .

In 1833 and 1842 Dunphail House was expanded. Furthermore, the villa was redesigned in the 1870s by Alexander Ross and between 1964 and 1966. The River Divie flows west of Dunphail House . On August 3, 1829, a short time after the completion of the villa, there was a flood, which washed away the banks until shortly before the villa, which almost fell victim to Dunphail House.

description

Dunphail House is isolated in a sparsely populated region of Morays near the hamlet of Edinkillie. The two-story building is designed in the Italianate style . Its masonry consists of roughly hewn quarry stone with sandstone surrounds . The segmental arched entrance portal with a battlements window is designed with Doric columns and a stone balustrade . On the right is a flatter extension that ends with a pavilion with a pyramid roof . This comes from the expansion in 1842. On the left is a three-storey campanile with a pyramid roof . The roofs are covered with slate .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ entry to Dunphail Castle  in Banff, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  3. ↑ entry to Dunphail House  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  4. ↑ Duniphail or Dunphail : FH Groome (ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Publishing Works Grange, Edinburgh, from 1882 to 1885.

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Coordinates: 57 ° 30 ′ 34.8 "  N , 3 ° 39 ′ 13.9"  W.