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Mansion house and associated buildings set within a designed landscape, the house renamed from Egglisjohn in the late 18th century. Langley Park House lies on the North-West side of the Montrose Basin. The mansion was first constructed in the late-18th century, with three storeys, a piended roof and angle pedestals. There were seven bays to the South-West front, with the three centre bays slightly advanced and under a pediment. The South-East front was also of seven bays. In circa 1820, a two-storey bow (curved bay) was added to the Southern end of the South-West elevation, and the single-storey Roman-Doric portico was placed over the three central pedimented bays. At this time, the centre windows on the South-East elevation were probably replaced by the present tripartites. In 1949, the house was remodelled and reduced to two-storeys, and the Roman-Doric portico was not replaced. The North-East elevation is similar to the others, but with six bays. On the ground floor, the Southern three bays have had a single-storey bow added, with large central windows. On the 1st edition OS map (circa 1846) the house is depicted as a rectangular structure, orientated North-West/South-East, with an enclosed internal open court in the Northern half, and a small extension on the North-East side. This configuration is still evident on the (circa 1888) and 1900 edition maps, but by 1945 the Northern end of the North-East side and the extension was removed, and the courtyard opened up to the North-East. The house is now essentially a U-plan two-storey mansion building open to the North-East, with a single-storey L-plan addition extending the South-West wing Northwards and the second wing extending at right angles to the North-East, providing a rectangular court within the buildings, with an opening to the North-East. A rectangular walled garden lies to the East of the house, built in circa 1800. It is divided into four parts, with two central square enclosed garden sections, and smaller rectangular sections to the North-West and South-East. The North-West rectangular section is not fully enclosed, being open to the South-West. This section also does not appear designed on the 1st or 2nd edition OS maps, but rather it is wooded, as it is now. The other sections have designed gardens in the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps, and the South-East rectangular section has the trees visible on the 1st edition OS map, which are removed on the 2nd edition OS map. In the 1st edition OS map, both square sections are quartered, but by the 2nd edition OS map only the one to the South-East remains quartered, which is still the case. The North-West square section has a sundial recorded as being in the centre on the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps, and is recorded in the HES listing as having a shaft identical to the sundial at Dun, with the plate removed. Recent aerial photographs show no sign of it in this area now. There are various buildings associated with the walled garden. In the Western corner of the North-West square section there is the apple house, which is a square pyramidal roofed tower-like structure that is visible on both 1st and 2nd edition OS maps. At the opposite corner of this square section outside the wall is a T-plan building, again visible on both maps. There is a small rectangular building just to the South-West of the T-plan building, outside the wall of the square section to the South-East, which is on the 2nd edition OS map only. Within the rectangular section to the South-East, there is a long rectangular building oriented North-East/South-West against the wall of the section to the North-West, which is visible only on the 2nd edition OS map and is no longer there. What is shown as a small square enclosure on the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps within this South-East rectangular area is now U-plan, being open to the South-East. Circa 250m to the South-West of the mansion is the home farm steading, also constructed in circa 1800. It consists of a rectangular range with an open central court, with centre and end pavilions to the South façade, and a central dovecot tower on the North side. The steading buildings are castellated, and built in an Adam Roman style. There have been modern bay window and porch additions. The 1st and 2nd edition OS map show a rectangular building outside the steading court to the North-East, oriented North-West/South-East. There is an internal wing inside the South-West wall of the internal court, which covers half the distance of the range, and which is extended the full length of the range on the 2nd edition OS map. On the 1st edition OS map, the steading is marked as offices. Circa 250 metres South of the steading is Mid Lodge, which is a single-storey ashlar fronted lodge, built in circa 1815. It has a doorway in a raised arched recess with a flanking window on each side. Circa 50 metres to the North of the mansion-house is an ice-house (NO66SE0042).
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NO66SE0043 - LANGLEY PARK