Description

Probably later 19th century. Unusual diminutive small square-plan lectern style henhouse sited between, little altered remnants of small home farm steading adjacent to site of now demolished Woodlands House. Roughly squared and snecked rubble with large squared quoins. Timber door with low level entry and timber lintel to S, evidence of ledges within (possibly nesting boxes).Probably later 19th century. Unusual diminutive small square-plan lectern style henhouse sited between, little altered remnants of small home farm steading adjacent to site of now demolished Woodlands House. Roughly squared and snecked rubble with large squared quoins. Timber door with low level entry and timber lintel to S, evidence of ledges within (possibly nesting boxes).

Statement of Interest

B-group with coach house and laundry.

The lectern design is rare for a henhouse and, grouped with the nearby coach house and laundry, is but a remnant of the fine small scale Woodlands House and Farm, built on land appearing as 'Perth Wood' on Macfarlane's 1792 map. The Perthshire Courier of 1813 advertised for sale 'The House and Grounds of Woodlands ... near the Auchterarder Turnpike Road containing about 34 Scots Acres of good ground'. By 1858

Woodlands, listed as a 'Gentleman's Seat' in the PO Directory, was owned by W Devas. Woodlands House appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map with large tree-lined formal gardens and a good-sized walled garden. The henhouse is sited between the coach house (see separate listing) and the site of the former Woodlands House. Historic maps indicate an unusually small scale steading with a circular structure, probably a horse mill, now no longer extant, at the northwest corner. The farmhouse, situated immediately to the west of the steading, is a gabled house reworked during the later 19th and 20th centuries. The surrounding farmland has all but disappeared under extensive modern housing developments.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77780056

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