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Ashlea, 2 Victoria Street, Monifieth

A Category C Listed Building in Monifieth, Angus

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4825 / 56°28'56"N

Longitude: -2.821 / 2°49'15"W

OS Eastings: 349531

OS Northings: 732563

OS Grid: NO495325

Mapcode National: GBR VP.9GQT

Mapcode Global: WH7RD.MBV9

Plus Code: 9C8VF5JH+XH

Entry Name: Ashlea, 2 Victoria Street, Monifieth

Listing Name: Victoria Street, Ashlea, with 2 Sets of Gatepiers and Wall and Enclosing Wall to North and East

Listing Date: 15 December 1989

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 383176

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37981

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200383176

Location: Monifieth

County: Angus

Town: Monifieth

Electoral Ward: Monifieth and Sidlaw

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

Attributed James MacLaren, circa 1870. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay, square plan, classically detailed. Coursers, snecked rubble, polished dressings and raised long and short chamfered quoins, slate roof.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay, base course, cill course; single storey porch at centre, with clasping angle piers, pilastered round-arched doorpiece to S, keystoned round-headed tripartite, platform roof with brattishing; 2- and 4-pane sash and case windows, wallhead cornice and moulded rhones (glassfibre replacements in original style, 1988); twin stacks with cornice.

S ELEVATION: symmetrical with margined windows. Central corniced window, flanked by 2 canted windows with piend roofs; 1st floor fenestrations, 1 single central light with flanking bipartites;

3 gabled dormers with segmental windowheads (replaced in original style by Rennie and Son, Kingennie, 1988).

E ELEVATION: glazing pattern similar to W, 1 window altered; off-set stack with cornice; adjoining curtain wall to rear.

N ELEVATION: advanced bay at left with shouldered stack at E, single storey (altered) service wing attached; central transom and mullion stair window, round-headed and border glazed, other windows irregular; piend roofs; evidence of demolished additions.

INTERIOR: plaster cornices in ground floor hall and public rooms, painted marble chimneypiece in dining room; scale and platt staircase with richly patterned cast-iron balusters leading to unusually large landing.

Statement of Interest

Land feued to James Fairweather Low by the Earl of Dalhousie, 1867; feu plan by James MacLaren (Register of Sasines).

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