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Old Smiddy House, 4 Braehead Road, Glamis

A Category B Listed Building in Glamis, Angus

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.6082 / 56°36'29"N

Longitude: -3.0026 / 3°0'9"W

OS Eastings: 338551

OS Northings: 746711

OS Grid: NO385467

Mapcode National: GBR VJ.RNGW

Mapcode Global: WH7QQ.V5CD

Plus Code: 9C8RJX5W+7W

Entry Name: Old Smiddy House, 4 Braehead Road, Glamis

Listing Name: Glamis Village, 4 Braehead Road, Old Smiddy House with Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 11 June 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 346968

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13770

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Glamis, 4 Braehead Road, Old Smiddy House

ID on this website: 200346968

Location: Glamis

County: Angus

Electoral Ward: Kirriemuir and Dean

Parish: Glamis

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

Dated 1765. 2-storey, 3-bay house with stepped, 2-bay single storey wing. Coursed rubble with squared rubble quoins and margins.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Part-glazed timber door with dated lintel to centre, windows in flanking bays and regular fenestration close to eaves at 1st floor; carved scrolled corbel to outer left angle close to eaves. Stepped roof, single storey bays to outer right; each with door to left and window to right.

NW ELEVATION: ground floor with part-glazed timber door to centre and small window in bay to left, further window to centre at 1st floor. Single storey bays to outer left with 2 windows.

SW ELEVATION: gabled elevation with window to each floor at outer right.

4-, 6-, and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates and overhanging eaves; Angus stone slate to single storey wing. Coped squared rubble stacks with thackstanes and cans.

BOUNDARY WALLS: rounded rubble coped rubble boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

Property of Strathmore Estates (Holding) Ltd. The scroll corbel may have served a purpose when the house was thatched. Smithy listed separately.

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