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Scottish Baronial mansion dated 1893, in the style of Alexander Ross, replacing an earlier house destroyed by fire in 1890. Asymmetrical 2-storey and attic mansion with square central tower rising one storey above roof-line. Tooled squared rubble, tooled and polished ashlar dressings. Five-bay south entrance front with advanced and gabled centre bay with simple Neo-Jacobean doorpiece and dummy bartizans flanking gabled first floor. Central window with cable moulded architraves and coat of arms above. Angle side lights flank entrance. Rectangular tripartite projecting windows in outer bays with decorative parapets raised at centre to accommodate blank shield. At right, angle drum tower rises two storeys terminating with bellcast conical slated roof. At left, angled corner with square first floor oriel. Five-bay return west garden elevation with rectangular projecting window, tripartites and bipartites. First floor fenestration breaks wallhead under crowstepped gablets and continuous stepped string course links first floor fenestration at south and west elevations. Named on the 1st edition OS map as 'Birchfield', this being the house which burnt down in 1890, and depicted at this time with a croquet ground to the southeast of the southeast elevation. By the time of the 2nd edition OS map, the house is depicted as 'Glen of Rothes House', at which time the adjacent farmstead (NJ25SE0033) has also been removed, although the former mill pond/dam was retained as an ornamental landscape feature. A photographic survey was carried out in 2020 prior to proposed alterations.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
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NJ25SE0047 - ROTHES GLEN HOUSE