Building record MAB32712 - ANGUS FOLK MUSEUM, GLAMIS

A terrace of six cottages and a former hearse-house, used latterly as a museum, now unoccupied.

A terrace of six cottages and a former hearse-house, used latterly as a museum, now unoccupied. The cottages were built in 1793 by the Earl of Strathmore, and the former hearse-house is from the early-19th century. On the 1st edition OS map they are shown as a row of adjacent cottages, with three rectangular buildings to the north-west. On the 2nd edition OS map, two of the buildings to the north-west have been removed, and the remaining building has an extension to the south-east, larger than the original building. Current maps show the building to the north-east has been incorporated into a U-plan range, open to the south-east. The buildings were converted into a museum in 1958, and handed over to the National Trust for Scotland in 1974, it closed in 2017. The row of buildings at the south-east are single-storey, rubble-built cottages with dressed quoins and coped ashlar stacks on the Angus slate roofs. The contents of the museum included a kitchen from Craichie, a Victorian farmhouse parlour, a schoolhouse and a forge from a smithy at Eassie. The building to the north-west is a former hearse-house, which had been converted into a farmworkers' bothy. It is a single-storey, 6-bay, rectangular-plan rubble-built building, with dressed ashlar quoins. There is a reconstructed four-bay cartshed and granary to the north-west and a harled range to the north-east, making up the rest of the U-plan range. There are coped rubble boundary walls around the range. A standing building survey was carried out on the row of cottages to the southeast by AOC in January 2014 prior to intended repairs. The cottages now consist of 16 discrete museum rooms with stone flagged floors. The original hearth areas are mostly still in place, mainly along the north walls. A number of blocked windows were located by the survey suggesting that internal arrangements of the cottages had changed over time. A photographic survey of the former hearse house was carried out in 2018 ahead of proposed change of use.

Period Notes
The cottages were built in 1793 and the former hearse-house in the early-19th century. The other buildings in the U-plan range is a modern reconstruction. The cottages were listed on 11/06/1971 and the former hearse-house on 15/01/1980.

AOC ARCHAEOLOGY, 2014, ANGUS FOLK MUSEUM, GLAMIS, ANGUS: HISTORIC BUILDING REPORT, SBS (Bibliographic reference). SAB5468.

ARCAHEOLOGY SCOTLAND, 2015, DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION IN SCOTLAND. NEW SERIES, VOLUME 15, 2014, p.38 (Bibliographic reference). SAB5542.

RATHMELL ARCHAEOLOGY, 2018, KIRKWYND, GLAMIS: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MITIGATION WRITTEN SCHEME OF INVESTIGATION, WSI (Bibliographic reference). SAB3135.

Jun 13 2013 , AAS-GR-13-06-412, 413, AAS-GR-13-06-412, 413 (Ground Photograph). SAB35259.

May 21 2002 , AAS/02/5/CT111-120, AAS/02/5/CT111-120 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB29428.

May 21 2002 , AAS/02/5/G14/28-30, AAS/02/5/G14/28-30 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB29427.

Oct 12 2018 , 18/00557/FULL, 18/00557/FULL (Ground Photograph). SAB34373.

Record last edited

Mar 30 2023 11:13AM