Description

Dated 1732. 2-storey, 6-bay house with later 2-storey,
2-bay addition in similar style at east gable; 19th
century single storey wing to rear. 6 regular south
facing bays with tall narrow windows with chamfered
margins and off-centre entrance with later corniced and
pilastered door-piece. Additional slightly later 2 wider
bays with similar fenestration continuous at east gable.
Diminutive gable attic windows; crowsteps; cavetto
skewputts; ridge and end corniced stacks; slate roof.
Single storey, 3-bay freestanding building at right
angles to main house and linked to it at SW by garden
wall, forming U-plan court. (Some evidence remains of
former matching building ar SE).
Interior; little remains of interest though outside east
gable wall clearly identifiable in attic, with
diminutive attic gable end window; pegged and numbered
collars and rafters.
Garden walls, house and gate piers; harl pointed garden
walls enclose square front garden; pair corniced rubble
gate piers in centre of east wall, with ogee caps and
finials. (similar entrance opposite in west side of
garden, now without gate piers).
Small low gabled rubble garden house incorporated in SW
angle of garden wall.

Statement of Interest

Alexander Brodie of Lethen gave up Lethen to his eldest

son (also Alexander) in 1732 and built himself a house at

Brightmony. He had a numerous family, which might have caused

the building of the additional 2 bays at the east gable of

the house.

NW skewputt initialled AB1732.

House and garden walls of special interest for survival

of original layout.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Brightmony House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17571062

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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