Building record MAB40694 - ECCLESGREIG HOUSE
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Summary
House and farmstead (Home Farm) depicted on historic OS maps, and site of a manor.
Protected Status/Designation
- Listed Building (B) 16323
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred NO 7369 6574 (355m by 301m) Centred at - Polygon: Known Site Extent |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NO76NW |
| Authority | Aberdeenshire |
| Civil Parish | St. Cyrus |
Type and Period (11)
- Mansion (12th Century to 19th Century - 1100 AD to 1899 AD)
- TURRET (12th Century to 19th Century - 1100 AD to 1899 AD)
- TOWER (12th Century to 19th Century - 1100 AD to 1899 AD)
- TOWER (12th Century to 19th Century - 1100 AD to 1899 AD)
- GARDEN (12th Century to 19th Century - 1100 AD to 1899 AD)
- TERRACE (12th Century to 19th Century - 1100 AD to 1899 AD)
- MANOR? (12th Century to 19th Century - 1100 AD to 1899 AD)
- FARMSTEAD (12th Century to 19th Century - 1100 AD to 1899 AD)
- Horse Mill (12th Century to 19th Century - 1100 AD to 1899 AD)
- STATUE (12th Century to 19th Century - 1100 AD to 1899 AD)
- SUNDIAL (12th Century to 19th Century - 1100 AD to 1899 AD)
Full Description
House and farmstead (Home Farm) depicted on historic OS maps, and site of a manor. The 1st edition shows the U-plan house with formal gardens to the southeast, including two statues and a sundial. To the southwest of the house set within the wooded grounds is the quadrangular steading with an attached horsemill on the west end of the southwest wing, a rectangular building within the court, and enclosed garden to the southeast. The layout is essentially unchanged on the 2nd edition,although there have been alterations and additions to both the house and steading, with partial infilling of the steading court and addition of buildings to the southeast and northwest. A sundial is also shown in the garden southeast of the steading. The house, designed by Henry Edmund Goodridge (of Bath, Somerset) in 1844 for Forsyth Grant, is evidently a reconstruction of an earlier house. It is Jacobean in style, 2-storey, with a symmetrical southeast front, a 3-storey central division with 2-storey rectangular bay, crow-stepped gable and flanking turrets. The northeast entrance has a 3-storey and attic battlemented porte-cochere tower, the southwest front a curious square tower broached to a circular top. The house has idiosyncratic detail, shaped gablets and tall-spired roofs. There are extensive pierced balustrades to garden terraces with finials and numerous garden ornaments. Now used agriculturally but house and gardens maintained. A photographic survey of the steading was carried out in 2014 prior to proposed conversion.
Period Notes
Present house 1844. Earlier elements remain, SE front bears an inscription of 1635.
AAS/91/8/CT7-9, 11, AAS/91/8/CT7-9, 11 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB19530.
Jan 30 1997 , AAS/97/03/CT27, AAS/97/03/CT27 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB16645.
Jan 30 1997 , AAS/97/03/G6/5-9, AAS/97/03/G6/5-9 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB16644.
SDD, n.d., BLDS OF ARCH & HIST INTEREST, ST CYRUS 5 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1827.
Sep 14 2014 , APP/2010/3527, APP/2010/3527 (Ground Photograph). SAB20953.
Other Statuses/References
- Authority: ASH;
- HES Listed Building Number: 16323;
- NMR Card Number: NO76NW8;
- NRHE Numlink: 36336;
- Old Historic Environment Record Ref: NO76NW0058;
External Links (2)
- https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB16323 (Historic Environment Scotland Portal Link)
- https://www.trove.scot/place/36336 (trove.scot link)
Sources/Archives (5)
- --- SAB16644 Air-oblique Photograph: Jan 30 1997 . AAS/97/03/G6/5-9. Black & White. AAS/97/03/G6/5-9.
- --- SAB16645 Air-oblique Photograph: Jan 30 1997 . AAS/97/03/CT27. Colour Transparency. AAS/97/03/CT27.
- --- SAB1827 Bibliographic reference: SDD. n.d.. BLDS OF ARCH & HIST INTEREST. ST CYRUS 5.
- --- SAB19530 Air-oblique Photograph: AAS/91/8/CT7-9, 11. Colour Transparency. AAS/91/8/CT7-9, 11.
- --- SAB20953 Ground Photograph: Sep 14 2014 . APP/2010/3527. Digital. APP/2010/3527.
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Related Events/Activities (1)
Record last edited
Aug 23 2024 3:47PM
