Courtyard Entrance, The Glen

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000019 - (see NOTES) Date Added 12/08/2003 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Traquair NGR NT 29821 33097 Coordinates 329821, 633097 — David Bryce, 1858 and 1874 for Sir Charles Tennant. Pointed-arch 2-span Scots Baronial bridge with corbelled semi-octagonal pedestrian refuges; leading to castellated archway with bartizans flanked by trefoil detailed walls enclosing courtyard. Droved and polished yellow sandstone ashlar dressings with coursed whinstone walls, parapet and soffits. BRIDGE: NW & SE ELEVATIONS: 3 semi-octagonal pedestrian refuges surmounting triangular buttress piers and cutwaters; pointed-arch over river (between refuge 1 and 2) with moulded dressed ashlar voussoirs and stepped hood-mould carrying slightly projecting parapet wall; hybrid pointed/segmental-arch spanning road (between refuges 2 and 3) or similar style and material; plain whinstone wing walls with advanced plain parapet carried on string course to flanks; moulded parapet coping to all. Plan reversed for SE elevation with gun-loop details at far left signifying interior room. INTERIOR: in SW pier, segmental-arch vaulted room constructed from random rubble (evidence of whitewashing in past, which may suggest usage as cool store for estate produce) with stone and earth floor and lit by long gun-loops in SE wall. Rest of bridge piers appear solid. COURTYARD ENTRANCE: NE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: moulded segmental-arched entrance with stepped hood moulding forming full-length string course, inset panel inscribed SALVE rising into battlemented parapet terminating in bartizans; high plain walls with trefoil and gun-loop detail adjoin kitchen/offices to left and stables to right; moulded coping to all SW (COUTRTYARD) ELEVATION:

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.