About Moat Brae
Medium scale Greek Revival villa, rising to 2 storeys with a raised basement and extending to 5 bays.
The house is in polished red ashlar and is attributed to Walter Newall.
The roof is in slate with corniced end stacks. The front elevation features a central pedimented Doric porch, approached via flyover steps and with spear-headed cast-iron railings adjoining.
Aproned 12-pane sash windows sit throughout, those to the ground floor topped with consoled cornices. The interior features a square central hall with a circular first floor gallery and a domed glass roof.
The plasterwork features Greek Revival ornament, whilst a Doric frieze sits in the entrance lobby. The interior was altered during the house’s conversion into a nursing home.
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) was inspired to write Peter Pan after having played in the garden behind Moat Brae House between 1873 and 1878.
Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust wishes to acknowledge the contribution of Loreburn Housing Association in making Moat Brae available to the Trust to restore and thereby saving it for the benefit of the Dumfries Community.