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Farmstead, remains of a house and site of manor. The OS 1st edition shows a L-plan range and two rectangular buildings arranged to form a court. On the east side of the east range is an attached horsemill. To the southeast of the group is a rectangular building, and to the north of the steading a detached circular structure. The plan is essentially unchanged on the 2nd edition, although a number of small conjoined pens are also shown to the north of the steading. On the east side of the farm court are the remains of a small early 18th century mansion-house which seems to incorporate the remains of 2m high massive footings of an earlier building. Two blocked loops in the east wall may also belong to this earlier phase. The ruins are of a 2-storey structure of harled sandstone rubble and tooled granite dressings and margins. The mansion-house is primarily of note for its rectangular fanlights, chamfered openings and coped chimney stack. At a secondary period, it has been converted into a threshing mill. In 1696 Pennan formed part of the estate of Baird of Auchmedden. The farmhouse is of early-mid 19th century date, two-storey, of harled red rubble, and tooled granite dressings and margins. There is a bracketted ashlar canopy over the central door in the slightly raised ground floor. Gable dormers break the wallhead in the outer bays. Pennan Mains was probably the mains farm of Auchmeddon castle (to the south) before the present Auchmeddon Mains was established.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)