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Site of a mansion and surviving B-listed service buildings, still in use. The mansion, Panmure House, was commissioned in 1666, by the 2nd Earl of Panmure. John Mylne, Master Mason to the King, designed the house and Alexander Nesbitt, an Edinburgh mason, oversaw the work following Mylne's death the following year. The new Panmure House was an impressive Scots Renaissance building with ogee-roofed corner towers to the west front and convex quadrant links leading to flanking service pavilions. Sir William Bruce made some alterations. In the 1850s, the house underwent considerable alteration and remodelling to the designs of David Bryce, commissioned by Fox Maule Ramsay, the 2nd Baron of Panmure. This work took place between 1852 and 1855 and included the addition of a central tower to the west front, corner towers to match Mylne's to the east front and the remodelling of the service wings. In his alterations to the service wings of Panmure House, Bryce substantially retained the position and footprint of the 17th century wings, remodelling them with Jacobean detailing, but replaced the quadrant links with more substantial gabled linking blocks and built an additional courtyard to the south-east of the south service court. In 1860, Fox Maule Ramsay inherited the title of Earl of Dalhousie and made Brechin Castle (NO55NE0040) his home. As a result, despite its recent remodelling, Panmure House was to be very rarely used for the remainder of its existence It is shown on the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps as a rectangular-plan house with quadrangular service courts attached to the north and south, with the 19th century additional quadrangular service court off the south-east corner of the south court. During World War II the house was used by billeted soldiers. In 1950, the Panmure estate was sold to pay death duties following the death of the 15th Earl. The new owners gutted the interior of the house, and in 1955 demolished it by blowing it up. Current maps show all that remains is the 19th century quadrangular service court and the service court that was originally attached to the south-east corner of the house, which has been partially removed to leave a U-plan range open to the west. The 19th century quadrangular court is in a Scots Jacobean style, and consists of asymmetrical stables and a service complex. It is predominantly constructed from squared snecked rubble, with some ashlar detailing. There are raised margins to openings and predominantly crowstepped gables. The pitched roofs have grey slates, and there are several corniced wallhead and gable-head stacks, as well as some cast-iron rainwater goods and hoppers. The first floor of the courtyard block has alternate pedimented and segmental dormer-headed windows. There is a pend at the centre of the east elevation, opening to the courtyard. The west elevation has an advanced central M-gabled section. The U-plan block, which possibly incorporates the 17th century kitchen block, has a large, shouldered central pend opening flanked by arrow slit openings, with a string course above and a corniced crenellated parapet with segmental pediments surmounting the merlons. There is a corbelled-out, panelled and corniced wall-end stack. On the north-east corner is a small projecting two-storey octagonal tower, with a string course dividing the ground and first floors. There are louvred openings to the first floor (for a laundry or larder), an eaves cornice and a fish-scale slated ogee roof with ball and spike finial. The south elevation is M-gabled, with crow-steps to the gables. Inside is a massive classical pilastered stone fireplace, which is through to have been removed from an older building and reinstalled, possibly from Panmure House during Bryce's remodelling. Standing building survey of the former stable block was carried out by Cameron Archaeology in February-March 2019. It dates from the 19th century and has been little changed, the stable fittings such as stalls, mangers and feed tubs appearing to be original. The accommodation may have been added in the late 19th or early 20th century. Two of the four cart doors were blocked up in the 20th century. The survey also included the building to the north which may include part of the kitchen of the original 17th century house although there have been substantial alterations in the mid 19th century.
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NO53NW0012 - PANMURE HOUSE