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1 Main Street, Glamis

A Category B Listed Building in Glamis, Angus

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.6085 / 56°36'30"N

Longitude: -3.004 / 3°0'14"W

OS Eastings: 338468

OS Northings: 746736

OS Grid: NO384467

Mapcode National: GBR VJ.RN61

Mapcode Global: WH7QQ.T5Q6

Plus Code: 9C8RJX5W+9C

Entry Name: 1 Main Street, Glamis

Listing Name: Glamis Village, 1 Main Street

Listing Date: 11 June 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 344164

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB11574

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Glamis, 1 And 3 Main Street

ID on this website: 200344164

Location: Glamis

County: Angus

Electoral Ward: Kirriemuir and Dean

Parish: Glamis

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: Thatched cottage

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Description

Dated 1745, renovated around 1980. Single storey, pair of three-bay thatched cottages converted to one. Painted harl walls.

Southeast (Main Street) Elevation: symmetrical. Bays to left of centre with boarded timber door and flanking windows, bays to right of centre mirror those to left.

Southwest Elevation: gabled elevation with small window off-centre right in gablehead.

Northeast Elevation: blank gable to left and slightly recessed wing (former outhouse?) projecting to right.

Twelve-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Directional thatch roof with scobed ridge. Northeast projection slated roof. Coped harled chimney stacks with polygonal cans and thackstanes.

Statement of Interest

Walker mentions a datestone of '1745' but expresses doubt regarding its authenticity owing to the unusual script which he says "unlike any other eighteenth century date in the village".

It is among a relatively small number of traditional buildings with a surviving thatched roof found across Scotland and the only thatched building in the area. A Survey of Thatched Buildings in Scotland, published in 2016 by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), found there were only around 200 buildings of this type remaining, most of which are found in small rural communities. Thatched buildings are often traditionally built, showing distinctive local and regional building methods and materials. Those that survive are important in helping us understand these traditional skills and an earlier way of life.

Listed building record revised in 2021 as part of the Thatched Buildings Listing Review.

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