Description

Circa 1820. Single and 2-storey, L-plan, classical former stable courtyard. Narrow bands of snecked rubble with squared rubble dressings and voussoirs. Chamfered arrises.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tall pedimented bay with blocked window in recessed, round-headed panel giving way to blind roundel on tympanum. Further blocked window in courtyard wall abutting to left with rounded angle to outer left.

NW ELEVATION: asymmetrical elevation with window (converted from door) in bay to outer left, broad 2-leaf boarded timber door immediately to right and evidence of blocked window beyond to right.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf boarded timber door to right of piended bay to left of centre with wall of courtyard set-back to right, rounded angle to outer right.

SE ELEVATION: coped courtyard walls sloping to slightly lower pyramidally-coped round gatepiers and ironwork gate at centre.

COURTYARD:

SE ELEVATION: broad 2-leaf boarded timber door below piended former hayloft opening and flanking doors.

NE ELEVATION: lean-to range with door in bay to left of centre and small window to right, further doors to outer bays.

4-pane glazing in fixed timber window. Grey slates. Ashlar-coped skews.

Statement of Interest

Fonab Coach House has housed the Scottish Tartans Society Hall of Records since 1991. Nearby Fonab House is listed separately. Port-Na-Craig is the site of a ferry crossing established during the 12th century by monks of the Abbey of Coupar Angus, and remembered in the local name 'Fonab' meaning abbot's land.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17834480

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)