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Former manse built in 1771, enlarged 1826 with a west wing added 1850. It was sub-divided in the late 20th century. The building is 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, L-plan with a later gabled, 2-storey, single bay wing at the west side. It is built of coursed, roughly squared rubble with squared rubble quoins, harl, quoin strips and some ashlar dressings. There is some good interior detailing and has an important setting with a walled garden. The south elevation has 3 original bays set-back at right. The centre bay with window has been altered from a door as there is evidence of a raggle from a previous porch. The doorway to left (behind later lean-to conservatory) has a moulded doorhead, 2-leaf panelled timber door and plate glass fanlight. There is regular fenestration to first floor with canted dormers over the outer bays and a small modern rooflight off-centre left. There is an advanced finialled gable to the left with a canted window at ground abutting a cill of bipartite above with the moulded windowhead. The north rear elevation has an advanced gable to the right with symmetrical fenestration to each return, with the one to right also having dormer windows. A set-back bay at the left with door to right and a window to left in the lean-to former milk house at ground level. A single window at first floor and screen wall at outer left. A later gabled bay of the west wing at the outer right partly screens the original gable. The east elevation has a broad gabled bay with a small casement window (former door) to the left and a single window to the right at ground level. The screen wall abutting on the outer right has a pedestrian door and bell from a church in Forfar. The west wing's west elevation has a projecting chimney breast breaking into a dominant shouldered stack on the right. There is a modern conservatory at ground level and a single window to the left at first floor level. Largely 4-pane, 12-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows, with some having secondary glazing. The roof has graded grey Foudland Quarry slates with coped squared rubble and harled stacks with thackstanes and cans, some of which are polygonal. There are ashlar-coped skews with beak and moulded skewputts. The interiors have much of the original detail retained, including decorative and moulded cornices and a plasterwork ceiling rose, timber floors and two staircases. No 1 built in 1850 has a part-glazed screen door, a cantilevered timber scale and platt staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters, picture rail, and working shutters. There is a timber fire surround to the small bedroom. The former drawing room is now the principal bedroom with a keystone segmentally arched marble fireplace, elaborate moulded cornice and a coombed ceiling. No 2 built in 1771 has 6-panelled doors (top two panels horizontal). The original kitchen is still in use with a huge lintel (uncovered by present owner, now with supporting steel beam) to a corbelled lum and slate from around the house has been incorporated into the hearth. There are stone and wood floors to the kitchen and the ground floor. The original scullery is now part of the kitchen and the original milk house, which is now a larder, adjoining the kitchen retains a slate floor and shelving. The hall has a slate floor and low ceiling, the study has a slate fire surround which is a modern insert. The casement window to right which was a former door, has timber shutters. A supporting beam at the centre corresponds with evidence of a dividing wall at first floor above. A tight dog-leg staircase with timber handrail leads to the principal bedroom former dressing room and bedroom) with 2 fireplaces. An early WC survives. A new stair leads to an attic floor bedroom with good cast-iron fireplace, tiles and slate surround. The walled garden is a rectangular-plan walled garden divided by a beech hedge. There are semicircular-coped granite rubble and brick walls approx 7' high with rounded angles and a simple trellis ironwork pedestrian gate to the west. There are a variety of ancillary buildings of slated, squared and snecked granite rubble forming a courtyard to the north of the house incorporating a former mill, now a gallery, a coach house with grain store and barn, stable and byre, hayloft, bothy and washhouse.
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