Building record MAB32791 - MAINS OF GLAMIS

Farmstead, built in the late 19th century incorporating earlier fabric, depicted on historic OS maps.

Farmstead, built in the late 19th century incorporating earlier fabric, depicted on historic OS maps. The quadrangular steading is rubble built with some ashlar dressings and voussoirs with Angus stone slate roofs to south and east ranges, and grey roof tiles elsewhere, with some corrugated-iron roofing to the west elevations. The principal, south, elevation is symmetrical with segmental-headed cart arches, a raised pedimented arch to the centre bay with four arches to the west (outer arch with a 2-leaf door) and four to the east (that to the second bay is square-headed). A slightly advanced pyramidal-roofed bay with door and hayloft opening is to the southwest corner, with a similar isolated pyramidal-roofed bay to the southeast corner. The west elevation has a 5-bay range of cattle courts raised in timber to gambrel roofs and adjoining the rear of the south range. A further bay is to the north, adjoining a projecting range with a corrugated-iron roof, which has a rubble bothy adjoining at the southwest. A mill lade is shown on the OS 1st edition map, from the Glamis Burn to the southwest, approaching from the west to features south of the steading. By the OS 2nd edition map, the lade is no longer shown from the Glamis Burn, instead a sluice and weir are shown, but it is still shown approaching from the west to features south of the steading. The steading is a good example of a post-Improvement estate steading, the most complete and notable in Glamis parish. The Mains of Glamis Farmhouse (NO34NE0149) is to the northeast. Standing building survey of the then partially disused steading was carried out by Alder Archaeology in March 2021 ahead of proposed demolition. The steading appears on an estate plan dated 1810 and is presumed to be of 18th century origin, with later developments throughout the 19th century and into the 20th. Masons' marks were noted on the outer east end of the south range. As late as 1886 the main west range had extended almost to the southwest corner of the steading with a passage accessing the cattle courts that were then in the interior. What is now the exterior south elevation of the bothy features a central fireplace with moulded mantlepiece. On the western end of this south elevation is a single masons's mark. The east range also contained a bothy, at the south end. The north range, badly damaged by fire in the 1970s, had previously housed a threshing wheel.

Period Notes
Listed 25/09/1998

ALDER ARCHAEOLOGY, 2021, ARCHAEOLOGICAL STANDING BUILDING SURVEY, MAINS OF GLAMIS FARM, GLAMIS, ANGUS, L1 SBS (Bibliographic reference). SAB8276.

ALDER ARCHAEOLOGY, 2021, MAINS OF GLAMIS FARM STANDING BUILDING SURVEY: WRITTEN SCHEME OF INVESTIGATION, WSI (Bibliographic reference). SAB8281.

ARCHAEOLOGY SCOTLAND, 2022, DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION IN SCOTLAND, NEW SERIES, VOLUME 22 (2021), p.23 (Bibliographic reference). SAB8314.

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