Building record MAB13890 - ARDMEALLIE HOUSE

Ardmeallie House is an unspoilt 18th Century Georgian house added to in the late 19th Century.

Ardmeallie House is an unspoilt 18th Century Georgian house added to in the late 19th Century. It probably lies on or near the site of an earlier residence mentioned in 1726. A branch of the Gordons owned Armeallie in the 17th and 18th Century. Built circa 1750, with additions by A. M. Mackenzie in 1900, it is a 2-storey, 5-bay house with raised basement and piended roof. The house is constructed of coursed whinstone rubble with galleting, although it was probably formerly harled. There are raised granite ashlar margins with rusticated quoins and modillioned cornice. The basement and rear are harled. The south elevation has ashlar steps leading to the entrance at the principal floor level where there is a porch with Corinthian columns and entablature. The doorway has double two-leaf doors with a strip fanlight with latticed glazing above. There are four windows to the principal floor and basement with five windows at first floor level. Flanking it are 2-bay, single storey wings designed by A. M. Mackenzie in 1900 with two windows to each floor. The north elevation is polygonal roofed with a canted stair tower projecting at the centre with a door at ground level and two stair windows above. There is an unfortunate lean-to addition to the right at ground level. There is a window to the outer bay and two blocked windows at first floor level. Two windows are in each floor to the left with a canted, piend-roofed dormer to the attic. The east and west elevations have two windows at first floor to each gable with sash and case windows, circa 1900, with 6-pane upper and 2-pane lower sashes. Some 12-pane glazing is retained at the rear. The roof has grey slates to the piended roof with swept eaves. There are broad, tall corniced ashlar stacks with decorative cans. The interior is tripartite in plan with some original plasterwork retained, with 6-panelled, raised and fielded doors and shutters. A stone turnpike stair leads to the first floor in the rear stairtower. The drawing room to the west at first floor level has a coved ceiling with a simple cornice and some original fire-surrounds. There are bread-ovens retained in the kitchen. A single storey, 3-bay steading range adjoins at right angles to the east forming a court, with two broad, basket-arched cart-arches which now have glazed door. A coach-house is to the north of the house. It is single storey with a segmental arch to the west gable with an ashlar belfry above with weathervane. The 18th Century walled garden, circa 30m by 40m, has rubble built walls with ashlar gatepiers to the north, which are corniced with ball finials. Inside there is a Gothic summerhouse set into the north wall with a door at ground floor. It has pointed arched windows at first floor and roofed with red pantiles. A lean-to potting shed is at the rear. A sundial, reset on a granite pedestal, has a copper dial with inscription and is formed as a gnomon of interlocking circular copper strips forming a hollow globe.

Period Notes
Mid 18thC; earlier residence mentioned in 1726; entrance facade c.1740; south facade updated c.1825; further updates and additions in 1894 or 1900.

Jul 7 2006 , DP 019410-11, DP 019410-11 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB20575.

May 13 2017 , AAS-GR-17-05-002 - 024, AAS-GR-17-05-002 - 024 (Ground Photograph). SAB35449.

SDD, n.d., BLDS OF ARCH & HIST INTEREST, MARNOCH 4 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1827.

Oct 1 1993 , LB Survey, LB Survey (Ground Photograph). SAB13419.

Record last edited

Jan 3 2024 4:20PM