Building record MAB3842 - LOGIE HOUSE

Logie House was built for the son of the Cumming family.

Logie House was built for the son of the Cumming family. An earlier house was built by John Cumming who built it after becoming the first Laird of Logie in 1663. This U-plan house was filled in during the late 18th century creating the core of the house as it is now, with extensions built in 1861 by A. and W. Reid. Sir Alexander Grant purchased the Logie Estate in 1924. Further alterations and additions were made to the house throughout the 20th century, with a porte-cochere added in 1925 by either T.P. Marwick and Sons or John Wittet, and the north wing in the 1950s, as well as more recent work in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. It is a white harled Scottish Baronial style mansion with tooled ashlar margins and dressings. It is mainly 2- and 3-storey, with long elevations to the east and west. There is an off centre entrance in the east that is fronted by the porte-cochere. The double gabled South return elevation has two canted windows rising from the raised basement to the raised ground floor. There are large tripartite and bipartite windows in the west garden front. There are angle bartizans at the southwest and northeast, and a continuous string course links the cills of the first floor windows in the west elevation, breaking the wallhead under the gables. Multi-pane glazing is used, and there are coped and margined ridge and wallhead stacks, crowstepped gables and slate roofs. In the interior, there is a mid 19th century wooden staircase with barley-sugar twist balusters, and some plaster decoration to the stairwell and ceiling. The panelled library has a modillion cornice, and the panelled dining room has corniced overdoors, dado, fluted Ionic plasters and a carved chimneypiece with flanking engaged fluted Ionic columns. The north gate lodge (NJ05SW0079) is circa 900 m to the northeast. A photographic survey was carried out in 2022 prior to proposed alterations.

Period Notes
Built after 1663, then rebuilt in th late 18th century and restyled 1861. A porte-cochere was added in 1925 and a north wing added in the 1950s. Further alterations and additions were made in the 1970s and 80s. Designated on 26/01/1971.

Jul 25 1989 , AAS/89/08/S24/6, AAS/89/08/S24/6 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB30260.

SDD, n.d., BLDS OF ARCH & HIST INTEREST, 12 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1827.

NOBLE, G, n.d., EARLY COASTAL HABITATION OF SCOTLAND (ECHOS) PILOT PROJECT; NORTH EAST SHELL MIDDENS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT (Bibliographic reference). SAB1335.

Author unknown, n.d., THE NORTHERN SCOT, 30/08/80 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1270.

Oct 10 2022 , 22/01226/LBC, 22/01226/LBC (Ground Photograph). SAB36481.

Record last edited

Mar 16 2023 10:59AM