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Steps And Garden Ornaments, Terrace, Ecclesgreig House, St Cyrus

A Category B Listed Building in St Cyrus, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.7832 / 56°46'59"N

Longitude: -2.43 / 2°25'47"W

OS Eastings: 373825

OS Northings: 765824

OS Grid: NO738658

Mapcode National: GBR X7.DG6D

Mapcode Global: WH8R5.NR2R

Plus Code: 9C8VQHMC+72

Entry Name: Steps And Garden Ornaments, Terrace, Ecclesgreig House, St Cyrus

Listing Name: Ecclesgreig House Including Terraces, Steps, and Graden Ornaments

Listing Date: 18 June 1972

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 350048

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16323

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: St Cyrus, Ecclesgreig House, Terrace, Steps And Garden Ornaments

ID on this website: 200350048

Location: St Cyrus

County: Aberdeenshire

Electoral Ward: Mearns

Parish: St Cyrus

Traditional County: Kincardineshire

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Description

Henry Edmund Goodridge (of Bath, Somerset) 1844, evidently complete reconstruction of earlier house. Jacobean, 2-storey, coursers, symmetrical SE front, 3-storey central division with 2-storey rectangular bay, crowstepped gable and flanking turrets; 2-window either side, upper windows corbelled out with shaped gables, slim angle turrets; NE entrance front has 3-storey and attic battlemented porte- cochere tower, SW front curious square tower broached to circular at top. Idiosyncratic detail, shaped gablets and tall-spired roofs. Extensive pierced balustrades to garden terraces, with finials, numerous garden ornaments.

Statement of Interest

Built for Forsyth Grant. The RA catalogue describes the work as alterations and additions. The NSA refers to the house as 'Mount Cyrus a substantial and graceful building! Now agriculturally used, but house and gardens maintained.

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