Pitcorthie House

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Pitcorthie House was a mansion and is a villa near the Scottish village of Colinsburgh in the Council Area Fife . In 2014 the villa was listed as an individual monument in the Scottish list of monuments in the highest monument category A.

history

The classical Pitcorthie House was built for George Simson around 1820 . Around 1901 the liberal politician Andrew Grant bought the property. After a fire, the mansion was demolished around 1950. An Ionic portico emerged from the two-story main facade .

Today's Villa Pitcorthie House was built on the site between 1964 and 1967. The draft provided Trevor Dannatt , who the major Scottish architects of the Modern is expected. It is one of Dannatt's few residential buildings and the only building that Dannatt ever completed for a private client in Scotland. Pitcorthie House was built as a holiday home on the estate of Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford . The villa has remained largely unchanged. Today it can be rented as a holiday home.

description

The one-story villa is isolated around 1.2 km northeast of Colinsburgh. Its masonry consists of roughly hewn sandstone with various brick applications . The western part closes with a flat monopitch roof , which is drawn as a wood-clad canopy over the entrance area and extends over the veranda to the right. The eastern component with a flat roof is pushed into the structure . A continuous element of aluminum-framed windows is drawn along the south facade.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ Entry on Pitcorthie House  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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Coordinates: 56 ° 13 ′ 35.2 "  N , 2 ° 49 ′ 37.2"  W.