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Cart Shed Block, Lethangie House

A Category B Listed Building in Kinross, Perth and Kinross

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.2191 / 56°13'8"N

Longitude: -3.4135 / 3°24'48"W

OS Eastings: 312442

OS Northings: 703847

OS Grid: NO124038

Mapcode National: GBR 20.D132

Mapcode Global: WH6R4.JYR7

Plus Code: 9C8R6H9P+JJ

Entry Name: Cart Shed Block, Lethangie House

Listing Name: Lethangie Estate, Walled Kitchen Garden, Dovecote and Outbuildings

Listing Date: 4 March 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 345928

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB12966

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200345928

Location: Kinross

County: Perth and Kinross

Electoral Ward: Kinross-shire

Parish: Kinross

Traditional County: Kinross-shire

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Description

Walled enclosure dating to the late 17th century (see REFERENCES) at SE of house. S wall parallel to road, N wall steps, with dovecote at lower E corner, and 2 outbuildings built, probably early 19th century, along the line of the wall further W towards Lethangie House. Flat-arched entrance to walled garden with wide raised droved margins and boarded door S of dovecote in E wall.

DOVECOTE: large 17th century square-plan dovecote, rubble built, with ashlar quoins and dressings; distinctively rounded SE angle; slated pyramid roof with 19th century triangular timber doo-entry facing S, with 6 rows of flight holes , and applied curvilinear bargeboards; wrought-iron fleur-de-lis apex finial; boarded door to left on N wall.

INTERIOR: central timber column (potence for revolving ladders) in situ; full-height nesting boxes line 4 walls.

OUTBUILDINGS: built probably early 19th century, along N wall of walled garden to W:

EAST CART SHED BLOCK: single storey and loft; rubble with droved margins; 3-bays to N; with boarded vehicular door on sliding track at wide left-hand bay. 2 flat-arched cart arches centre and right at ground. 3 loft openings close up at eaves over, centre opening larger with 2-leaf boarded doors; other 2 and 3 S facing loft openings with louvered shutters. Raggle lines of now demolished buildings formerly attached at E and W gables.

W BLOCK: single storey and loft; rubble with droved ashlar dressings and ashlar skews. Roof replaced (corrugated iron). Variety of openings, altered to N, original openings to S. W gable with blocked door central at ground, single window with square hoodmould over, with 2-pane glazing

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