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House and walled garden, still in residential use, built in 1898 by Daniel Gibson on the site of the old castle of Braichlie (NO39SE0013) for Sir James Mackenzie. The terraced landscape and walled garden was designed by landscape architect Thomas Hayton Mawson as one overall design in partnership with Daniel Gibson. Originally a dower house named Braichlie (Brackley on the 2nd edition OS map), it was renamed Glenmuick House after the earlier Glenmuick House (NO39SE0025) was demolished in 1947. There are later 19th century C-listed stables to the south-east of the house (NO39SE0051) and an early 20th century C-listed estate building to the north-east (NO39SE0052). It is a two-storey, irregular plan house with various additions and Tudor style detailing that is constructed from tooled, squared and coursed granite with red sandstone ashlar dressings to the windows and doorways. There are prominent large red sandstone mullion and transom windows, rectangular fixed and casement leaded windows, two and four-pane sash and case timber windows, grey slated piended and mansard roofs with lead ridges and flashing, a granite ridge and wallhead stacks with red sandstone linked flues and clay cans. Cast-iron rhones and rhones pipes have decorative hoppers. The principal east eight-bay elevation has a semi-circular arched doorway with stepped hoodmoulding over in a broad advanced bay with a castellated parapet. At one end of the elevation is an advanced tower with a small central window and curved corners at the ground floor, corbelling to a square cap house with a pyramidal roof. The three-bay north elevation has a broad, advanced, single-storey castellated bay with a prominent, advanced, shouldered stack above and a two-storey, broad canted bay window. The five-bay west elevation, has a five-bay projecting wing with a broad canted bay window and a balustrade to the north, to the west broad eaves break a canted two-storey bay window with a parapet. At the rear elevation to the south is a single-storey service accommodation built in 1912 with a circular corner tower with a conical roof to the south-east corner. The interior has a mixture of Tudor and Gothic decorative schemes. Ground floor reception rooms have ornate plasterwork, timber panelling to a dado and marble, timber and sandstone classical and gothic chimneypieces. There is an inglenook fireplace in the entrance hall and a timber open well stair with decorative balusters and newels. The large, rectangular, walled garden is to the north-east of Glenmuick House. In the north wall is a gateway with a cut-out semi-circular opening and an ornate wrought-iron gate with railings. At the north-east corner is a square pavilion with a pyramidal bellcast grey graded slate roof with a finial and overhanging eaves. There is a canted bay window to the north elevation with a glazed doorway and a timber lined interior. The garden and pavilion walls are of tooled, squared and coursed granite.
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