Laundry, Auchterhouse Mansion is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 August 1992.
Laundry, Auchterhouse Mansion
- WRENN ID
- mired-hall-dawn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1992
- OS grid reference
- NO 331 372
- Coordinates
- 56.52293, -3.08791
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a late 19th century laundry building located to the east of Auchterhouse Mansion House. It is a single-story, rectangular structure with six bays and is constructed of white painted brick. A distinctive saw-toothed eaves course runs along the roofline, and projecting ashlar cills feature beneath the windows. The openings have a segmental head. An off-centre entrance door is topped with a fanlight, and a boarded laundry chute opening is visible on the west elevation. The windows are 12-pane top-hopper sashes, and the roof is mono-pitched with grey slates, complemented by brick end stacks.
The interior, as seen in 2011, includes a coomb ceiling lined with sheet asbestos, along with original drying racks, a boarded laundry chute enclosure, and a linen press labelled 'A Gibe, Nottingham Place'. Three vitreous enamelled sinks, a water tank, and an electric boiler are attached to the south wall.
The laundry is part of a group of structures at Auchterhouse, which includes the Old Mansion House, a dovecot, a lodge and gatepiers, a stable, coach house and squash court, a road bridge over Auchterhouse Burn and a weir.
This laundry is a rare example of an unaltered, purpose-built estate laundry building, retaining many original fixtures. Large estates commonly constructed specialized laundry buildings to provide modern conveniences. The building's design features a plan of two rooms: one for washing and another for ironing. It displays good brick detailing, such as the saw-toothed eaves course and the coursed brick stacks. The laundry’s construction is significant in understanding the development of Auchterhouse estate and enhances the architectural and historical context of the Old Mansion House.
Auchterhouse has a long history, having been held by the Ogilvy of Airlie, Earls of Buchan, Earls of Strathmore, and returning to the Ogilvys in 1715. The Old Mansion House incorporates fragments of a 13th-century castle, once owned by Sir John Ramsey, an associate of William Wallace. In 1308, Ramsey entertained Wallace and 300 followers at the property following their return from Flanders. The ruinous tower to the southeast of the house, known as Wallace Tower, commemorates this visit and is a Scheduled Monument.
The building was formerly known as "Auchterhouse Old Mansion House Hotel Laundry."
Local climate
Laundry, Auchterhouse Mansion receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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