Building record MAB37936 - FINZEAN HOUSE

Mansion house and walled garden, still in use, set within a designed landscape (NO59SE0045).

Mansion house and walled garden, still in use, set within a designed landscape (NO59SE0045). The original mansion house was built in 1686, but much of it was burnt down in 1954 and has been almost completely replaced. The C-listed walled garden was built in the late 19th century. The south façade of the mansion was completely rebuilt to its original design and a new ballroom was added in circa 2010. A 17th century skewputt remains of the courtyard gate. The north wall of the near rectangular-plan, gently terraced walled garden is adjacent to the house, and has a slatted timber gate to the east. The walls are rubble, with rubble coping swept down to the south. There square-plan granite gatepiers with spherical finials in the quadrant walls with a cast-iron, two-leaf gate to the south. At the centre of the east wall are square-plan granite gatepiers that have spherical finials missing, and with simple cast-iron gates. This is flanked to the left by a doorway with a panelled and boarded timber gate. The west wall has a cast-iron gate to the centre. Backing the east wall at the south is a vertically boarded timber ancillary cottage that is orne style with decorative timber barge boards, glazed oriel windows, timber hoodmould to a boarded timber door. The purple-grey slate roof has a lead ridge and a corniced red brick wallhead stack to rear.

Period Notes
Walled garden listed 30/03/2000. The mansion was originally built in 1686, but much of it was burnt down in 1954 and has been almost completely replaced with the current house. The walled garden is late 19th century.

Jan 26 1989 , IL 27-32, IL 27-32 (Ground Photograph). SAB33622.

Author unknown, n.d., NSA, (1843) 792-3 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1269.

Record last edited

Aug 13 2018 1:59PM