Building record MAB38206 - LUNAN BANK HOUSE, INVERKEILOR

Farmhouse and walled garden, and site of farmstead, dating from the early 19th century.

Farmhouse and walled garden, and site of farmstead, dating from the early 19th century. The date of Lunan Bank House is not known but it was likely built in the early 19th century. The date 1828 is carved on an arched entrance on the north elevation of the steading. It is likely that the farmhouse, walled garden and outbuilding to the northeast (former coach house) were built around the same time as the steading complex. The OS 1st edition map shows a C-plan steading, open to the south, with an attached horsemill on the east side, a farmhouse and walled garden to the west, a small building immediately west of the steading, and an L-plan building, possibly a cottage, to the east. By the time of the 2nd edition map, the steading court had been infilled and extended to the east and new buildings added to west, south and east. The steading was demolished in 2019. Lunan Bank House is a two-storey, three-bay former farmhouse in a classical style. Rectangular in plan, the central block is flanked by projecting single-storey wings on either side. The principal elevation is rendered and the walls are built of coursed red sandstone rubble with squared-rubble rybats and projecting margins. The house was renovated in 2013. To the immediate southeast of the farmhouse there is a large rectangular-plan walled garden dating from the early 19th century. It has tall rubble and coped red sandstone walls which are curved at the corners. The entrance to the walled garden is at the centre of the northwest wall. The entrance gates were removed around the early 21st century. There is a small, single-storey rectangular-plan outbuilding to the northeast of the farmhouse dating to the early 19th century, which is likely to be a former coach house. It is built of coursed red ashlar sandstone and has raised margins and pointed gable ends. The principal east elevation features a segmental-arched entrance with double-leaf timber doors. An early 19th century retaining wall of coursed rubble bounds the garden to the north of the house. This wall adjoins a pair of square-plan, red sandstone gatepiers with pyramidal caps at the northwest entrance to the house, and abuts to the rear of the former coach house at the northeast entrance to the steading complex. Lunan Bank House, walled garden and former coach house is an important and substantially unaltered example of an early 19th century Improvement period farmhouse and ancillary buildings. Lunan Bank House, the walled garden, the single-storey outbuilding to northeast (former coach house), gatepiers and the retaining wall are all Category B Listed. The single-storey outbuilding adjoining the northeast of the walled garden, other ancillary structures to the north and west of the walled garden, the steading complex and open barn to the east, and the boundary wall between the house are not Listed. Photographic survey of the walled garden was carried out in 2012 prior to development. Further photographic recording was carried out in 2018.

Period Notes
The date 1828 is carved on an arched entrance on the north elevation of the steading. Listed 11/06/1971. Amended 18/02/2019.

Aug 22 2012 , 12/00019/FULL, 12/00019/FULL (Ground Photograph). SAB21693.

Nov 21 2018 , 18/00532/LBC, 18/00532/LBC (Ground Photograph). SAB34389.

Record last edited

Oct 20 2020 11:26AM