East Adamston,farmhouse Including Boundary Wall, Auchterhouse
Description: East Adamston,farmhouse Including Boundary Wall
Category: B
Date Listed: 26 August 1992
Historic Scotland Building ID: 6487
OS Grid Coordinates: 332935, 735486
Latitude/Longitude: 56.5066, -3.0912
Location: Lundie, Angus DD2 5QX
Locality: Auchterhouse
County: Angus
Country: Scotland
Postcode: DD2 5QX
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Listing Text
Earlier 19th century. Single and 2-storey, 3-bay, U-plan, classically styled farmhouse. Pink and buff rubble construction, ashlar dressings, piended slate roof. Margined windows (painted cement-rendered at S elevation), mostly 4- and 12-pane sash and case frames; deep eaves; prominent shouldered and corniced end and wallhead stacks.
S ELEVATION: door with plain margined doorcase, fanlight and block pediment at advanced central bay, 12-pane window at 1st floor; window at ground floor left and right with plain block canopy detail, 12-pane windows at 1st floor.
W ELEVATION: window at ground floor right at main house, window at ground floor and 2 windows at 1st floor of service wing at right.
E ELEVATION: main house at right blank, single storey projectin at left with bipartite window.
N ELEVATION: door at single storey link at centre, stair window at main house; 2-storey service wing projecting at left with window at ground floor, 1 window at ground and 2 at 1st floor right return; window at single storey wing at right.
INTERIOR: well stair with decorative cast-iron balusters; some early chimneypieces; some shutters and doors with fielded panels.
References:
OSA (1795), vol.XIV, p250; NSA (1845), vol.XI, p652; Atlas of Part of Camperdown Estate, 1848, DARC GD/NUS 23.
Notes:
East Adamston was owned by the Duncans of Lundie, later of Camperdown during the 18th and 19th centuries. There is a lintel 'DY 1757' re-set into the east elevation of the adjacent steading.
Source: Historic Scotland
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