File:Carrington House, Fettes College, Edinburgh.jpg
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English: By the eminent Edinburgh architect David Bryce, 1871-1872; enlarged, 1892, new window by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, 1895, interior renovation, A F Balfour Paul, 1936, and restored after fire, Anderson Kinninmonth and Paul, 1963. Restrained Baronial, boarding school house, including a lower 2-storey wing. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. House master's house to E. Entrance to student house in recessed gabled bay by re-entrant angle to the right. Low 2-storey wing to outer right comprised of 3 gabled bays. Single storey projection to main block at rear. Canted bay with gablehead with curved mitre above; single storey canted bay projecting at ground; decorative timber barge boarding retained to gablehead and 2 attic dormers breaking eaves.
Named after an estate of a Trustee/Governor the Hon B F Primrose, and originally called Dalmeny; renamed allegedly because Lord Rosebery's mail was arriving at Fettes. Carrington House provides accommodation for 58 boys between 13 and 18 years and is one of 9 houses for pupils of Fettes College. |
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