Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

BIRKHILL, COUPAR ANGUS ROAD, BROWHEAD COTTAGELB50077

Status: Removed

Documents

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
03/05/2006
Date Removed:
02/11/2016
Local Authority
Angus
Planning Authority
Angus
Parish
Liff And Benvie
NGR
NO 35524 33854
Coordinates
335524, 733854

Removal Reason

No longer meets the criteria for listing.

Description

Earlier 19th century. Single storey and attic, 3-bay, symmetrical rectangular-plan former coachhouse, with shallow-pitched, central gable and large carved sandstone apex finial. Harled rubble with painted ashlar margins. Projecting ashlar cills; Tudor hoodmoulds to window openings of S Elevation. Plain timber bargeboards to gables, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter-ends.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: depressed three-centred arched window at ground floor to centre, similar smaller window above; flanking flat-arched windows.

N ELEVATION: vertically boarded timber door to centre and to left; wide flat arched opening to left with 2-leaf vertically boarded timber sliding door.

E ELEVATION: flat-arched opening at gable apex with hinged timber frame.

Four-light non-traditional timber windows with top hopper. Truncated stone end stacks. Grey slate, pitched roof, later skylight to right of S pitch and N pitch. Some cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR (seen 2011): intact original plan form of square-plan room to W and large rectangular room to E. Painted rubble walls. Exposed timber trussed roof.

Statement of Special Interest

Browhead cottage is a largely intact, distinctive example of small earlier 19th century coachhouse. The building retains its symmetrical principal elevation and is well detailed with distinctive arched openings with hoodmoulding and prominent carved apex final to central gable. This detailing, as well as the positioning of the entrance to the rear of the building, is suggestive of a domestic property when viewed at first glance. Although set back from the main road, this property makes a significant contribution to the streetscape which is characterised by mid 20th century dwellings and reflects the social history of the development of this parish.

The coachhouse is similar in design and detailing to the adjacent house to the west, which it would have served. Browhead House was rented by the prolific local businessman, Thomas Lamb, who founded the Lamb's Temperance Hotel on Murraygate, Dundee. The 1st Edition Ordnance Survey (1867) depicts these buildings within a small formal landscape, with flanking nurseries and trees denoted the boundary. The property may have been part of the earlier 19th century Camperdown estate improvements, as the property is situated on the northern boundary of the estate. This land was gifted to Admiral Duncan after his victory over the Dutch at the Battle of Camperdown, 1797. In the earlier 19th century his son, Robert Duncan and Earl of Camperdown undertook improvements to the estate. This included extensive planting, the construction of numerous buildings including Camperdown House, as well as the feuing of land to the north-west, now known as Birkhill.

(List description updated 2011).

References

Bibliography

Ordnance Survey 1st Edition (1867). William Geddes Oil Painting of Thomas Lamb with Wife and Family on the Lawn at Brewhead House, Birkhill (1867-9) Perth Museum and Art Gallery Collection.

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Images

Browhead Cottage, front elevation looking north east during daytime with blue sky and green lawn

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