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Glencadam House, Brechin

A Category B Listed Building in Brechin, Angus

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.7382 / 56°44'17"N

Longitude: -2.6527 / 2°39'9"W

OS Eastings: 360169

OS Northings: 760917

OS Grid: NO601609

Mapcode National: GBR WW.YKYH

Mapcode Global: WH8R8.7W2T

Plus Code: 9C8VP8QW+7W

Entry Name: Glencadam House, Brechin

Listing Name: Glencadam House off Trinity Road.

Listing Date: 5 April 1979

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 358177

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB22587

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Brechin, Glencadam House

ID on this website: 200358177

Location: Brechin

County: Angus

Town: Brechin

Electoral Ward: Brechin and Edzell

Traditional County: Angus

Tagged with: Country house

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Description

James MacLaren, circa 1870. Sizable free neo-Jacobean

mansion, 2-storey and attic, coursed rubble with

semi-symmetrical ashlar west front, 3 bays, outer bays

advanced and gabled with corbelled octagonal chimney shafts,

left-hand bay has shallow ground floor tripartite,

broken-segmental pediment first floor bipartite, arched attic

window with keyblock; right-hand gable canted bay through

both floors, parapet raised in gablet with finial;

recessed centre bay contains ground floor porch projecting

slightly forward of flanking gabled bays, tripartite

treatment, stilted entablature on anta pilasters, pierced

parapet, single window with dormer head above N and S

elevations 3-bay, centre bays slightly advanced and gabled,

centre bay at N front has ground floor tripartite and 1st

floor bipartite with strapwork head, S elevation partly

overlaid by conservatory, centre 1st hood-moulded tripartite, cantilevered stone balcony with iron rail. Slated roof with

straight skews, stop-chamfered gable stacks with moulded

copes. Single-storey offices with louvred ventilators on E of

walled, court to rear, Garden wall with polygonal gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Lodge simple and spoiled by modern porch.

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