House Of Glennie

The House of Glennie is a large, L-plan Arts and Crafts sporting lodge, likely designed by Graham Henderson around 1936. It stands overlooking the River Deveron and is three storeys high in part, with a two-storey section and attic. The exterior is largely harled, with pre-cast concrete mullions and dressings, and a base course. The first floor is slightly jettied at intervals.

The west wing’s western elevation faces an entrance court. At the center is a two-storey gabled porch with a bolection moulding door surround and a blank square panel above. A stair window sits above the door. To the right of the porch is a flat-roofed, canted window, with a first-floor window above, set within a scroll-pedimented dormerhead. The ground floor has two windows to the left, and two more close under the eaves.

The west wing’s southern elevation faces the entrance court. A three-storey block extends to the east, with a window on each floor, and a gabled dormerhead at the third floor. A lower two-storey and attic range extends westward, featuring three ground-floor windows, and three first-floor windows that break the eaves in gabled dormerheads with scrolled outer bays. Cast-iron rhones with rectangular hopper-heads, decorated with thistles, are present.

The south wing’s southern elevation displays a steeply pitched gable with two-storey, six-light canted dormers. A single narrow window illuminates the attic. Access to the garden is provided through a round-arched gateway in an ashlar coped garden wall, extending southward, which is adorned with ball finials.

The south wing's eastern elevation (facing the river) features a two-storey, advanced gabled bay to the south; incorporating a door to a terrace at the center, framed by a moulded surround with a keystone, and flanked by three windows. A three-light window is positioned above the door at the first floor. Four regular bays extend north, with four tall ground-floor windows and four first-floor windows breaking the eaves in gabled dormerheads.

The north elevation of the west wing is irregular, with an advanced, three-storey gable to the east, featuring a bipartite window at ground floor level and single windows at the first and second floors. Two bays are recessed to the left, exhibiting a ground-floor window, three first-floor windows, and two gabled dormerheads breaking the eaves at the third floor. A bell sits atop the west re-entrant gable. A lower wing adjoins, and includes a later lean-to addition at ground level, with a single dormer having a scrolled pediment breaking the eaves at the first floor.

The windows are sash and case, with 9-, 12- and 15-pane glazing patterns. The roof is covered in grey slates, with slightly swept eaves; there is no skew coping. Tall, harled stacks incorporate deep ashlar coping.

The interior comprises a fine series of Arts and Crafts style public rooms. The drawing room has a plaster-encased, beamed ceiling with thistle motifs, and leaf and thistle details in the window bays. The interior also includes horizontal panelled doors with moulded architraves and a dog-leg staircase, with exposed woodwork.

The gates and gatepiers are square-plan, rusticated, coursed ashlar, with a heavy cornice, pedestal caps and ball finials. Cast-iron gates and a cattle grid complete the entrance.