Description

Probably mid-18th century house incorporating earlier
fabric and later remodelling early-mid 19th century stable
range continuous at N gable. 2-storey, symmetrical
5-bay house with single storey and loft, 6-bay stable
range. Modern harl with chamfered ashlar margins; rubble
stables with tooled ashlar dressings. Centre entrance;
regular fenestration with slightly smaller 1st floor
windows; 5 1st floor windows in rear, 2 ground and 2 1st
floor blind windows in S gable. 2 doors and 4 windows in
ground floor of stables, 3 loft openings. Modern 6-pane
casements in all windows.
Hipped and corniced end and rear wallhead stacks; shallow
piended slate roof to main house, gabled slate roof with
projecting eaves to former stables. High walled passage
links rear of house to rear service quarters of mansion, 1
wall of the passage a portion of the walled garden wall.
INTERIOR: plain staircase with simple turned balusters; 1st
floor passage linked with former stable loft by doorway
revealed during recent restoration work. Now converted to
dwelling house (1989).

Statement of Interest

Glassaugh Lodge presents difficulties of dating and

interpretation. The regular fenestration with chamfered

window margins is of 18th century date, the hipped stacks

and shallow piended-roof of early-mid 19th century. The

house may have been part of an earlier mansion, or indeed the

principal if modest house of the estate before the circa

1770 mansion (enlarged 1840) was constructed. Certainly it

appears to have been used as servants' quarters in late

18th-early 19th century, the walled passage linking it

directly with the mansion house rear service area, screening

the coming and going of servants from the main entrance

front of the 1770 house. The mansion house was re-cast

to the S in 1840 and approached by a new drive from the E,

after which the service area would have been less noticeable.

Houses and stables now linked internally and in process of

conversion to modern dwelling (1989).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17780063

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