Clushmill House, Lundie

Clushmill House, Lundie

Clushmill House is a two-storey and attic farmhouse of plain classical style, built between 1861 and 1891. It stands northeast of the village of Lundie in Angus. The house is rectangular on plan with a single-storey L-plan service block attached at the rear. A detached single-storey stable block with rectangular plan sits to the northwest, featuring three stable doors at the front.

The principal south elevation is constructed in snecked rubble, with random rubble used elsewhere. It has long and short window margins, slightly projecting cills, and stugged quoins. A flat-roofed, single-storey stone porch with cornicing to the eaves projects from the centre, with an entrance door at the left side. The stable block is built in random rubble with some brick infill on the front elevation and irregular stugged quoins.

Windows throughout the house are predominantly replacement 12-pane tilting timber-framed windows, with some sash and case and casement frames of varying glazing patterns. Two flat-roofed double-width dormer windows pierce the north roof pitch with six-pane glazing. The stable block has a window in the east gable and rooflights in the south roof pitch. The house has a piended and slated roof with shouldered and corniced end chimneystacks. Cast iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers ornament the front elevation. The stable block has a slated roof with a brick chimneystack on the east apex.

The interior retains late-19th century features in the principal ground floor rooms, including deep skirting, decorative timberwork, fireplaces, and moulded plaster cornicing. The staircase features decorative cast iron balusters and a polished timber handrail. Other rooms have been modernised in keeping with period style, with replacement fire surrounds and picture rails.

A conservatory dating to around 2017 is attached to the east elevation, and a single-storey kitchen extension dating to around 2017 is attached to the west elevation of the rear service block. Both extensions are excluded from the listing.

Historical Context

The land and farm at Clushmill formed part of the tenanted farm holdings of the Earl of Camperdown. An earlier single-storey farmhouse stood to the east of a corn mill with associated U-plan steading, documented on the 1860 Ordnance Survey map. The 1857–61 Ordnance Survey Name Book describes this earlier building as substantially built, one-storey, with a small garden, offices, 12 acres of land, and a corn mill operated by Mr Sime under a sublease from the tenant farmer, Andrew Falconer. The 1881 census shows Falconer, his wife, and son continuing to work at Clushmill, employing two farm servants, one domestic servant, and a lodger who lived in the nearby Clushmill Bothy.

The present two-storey house replaced the earlier farmhouse and was built as the farmhouse for the farm at Clushmill, appearing on the 1900 Ordnance Survey map as a rectangular-plan building with an outshot at the rear forming an L-plan, and a central projecting porch. The footprint has remained largely unaltered since 1900. The stable block to the northwest may incorporate early-19th century stone from the earlier mill house and its associated outbuildings.