Building record MAB40273 - 1 PANMURE PLACE, MONTROSE

House dated to 1925, 2-storey, 3-bay, asymmetrical, in a Scottish Arts and Crafts style with 17th century Scots detailing, attributed to Thoms and Wilkie of Dundee.

House dated to 1925, 2-storey, 3-bay, asymmetrical, in a Scottish Arts and Crafts style with 17th century Scots detailing, attributed to Thoms and Wilkie of Dundee. The east elevation (principal) is bull-faced sandstone, with chamfered corners at the ground level, then corbelled to square at the first floor. The walls are harled to the sides and the rear. There are ashlar dressings, architraved margins, a battered base course and roll-moulded surrounds to the principal openings. The entrance timber door is recessed with an architraved surround, with a datestone of 1925 in a panel at the head, with a stylised scroll decoration on both sides and a wrought-iron grille over the door glazing. There is one ground floor window to the north of the entrance, with a centred first floor window above which rise through the eaves to a pedimented dormer head. The bay to the north at the ground floor has a stone-mullioned quadripartite bay window, with a stone balustrade above and two first floor windows in a crow-stepped gable with a carved thistle in the panel in the gablehead. The bay to the south at the ground floor has a stone-mullioned tripartite window, with a stone balustrade above and the two first floor windows which rise through the eaves to pedimented dormer heads. The building has timber sash and case windows, 18-pane at the front (east elevation) ground floor, 12-pane at front and rear first floor and 6-pane in the single storey north west wing. The roof is pitched and graded grey slate, with crowstepped gables to the north east and south east. The gablehead chimney stack is ashlar to the north east, with a stack breaking the pitch to the east, and with tall stacks rising from the eaves to the north west and to the west. To the front of the property there is a low, coped ashlar boundary wall, with circular section conical capped gatepiers to a centre entrance with a wrought-iron gate, circular section, dome capped gatepiers to a driveway entrance with wrought-iron gates, two boundary square section and dome capped corner gatepiers, with steel railings along the wall length. To the north and west is coped rubble stone boundary wall.

Period Notes
Listed 11/06/1971

GIFFORD, J, 2012, THE BUILDINGS OF SCOTLAND: DUNDEE AND ANGUS, p.641 (Bibliographic reference). SAB2631.

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Mar 13 2019 1:06PM