Laws House Stable Court, Laws Hill is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1989. Stable court.

Laws House Stable Court, Laws Hill

WRENN ID
narrow-rotunda-fen
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1989
Type
Stable court
OS grid reference
NO 489 349
Coordinates
56.5037, -2.83081
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Laws House Stable Court, built around 1836, is a single-storey structure with a central two-storey and attic dovecot, designed in an Elizabethan style. It has a quadrangular plan and features a later additional bay on the west range. The building is located some distance from the now-demolished house. It is constructed from squared, coursed, and rubble whinstone, with cherry-cocking and snecking, and has ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The windows include 12-pane sash and case glazing, some of which have been altered or boarded up, and there are skew gables throughout, along with long and short corner quoins.

On the east elevation, there are two double gables flanking a roughly paved entrance to the court. The left side features irregular gables, a window, and a round-headed lancet to the attic, along with a linking door to a smaller gable with an elongated round-headed window to the north. The right side has regular gables with windows and lancets similar to those on the south, along with an offset door and a later lean-to addition.

The south elevation includes a door and three windows for domestic accommodation on the right, with single and double apex stacks featuring angle stalks (the right stack has round replacements). A door on the left indicates the line of a later addition with a gable on the west elevation.

On the west elevation, there is a piended bay to the north and a further lower bay with a corrugated-iron roof, which originally terminated in a freestanding sawmill bay on the left that is higher and has skew gables.

The north elevation features an elevated door to the sawmill, flanked by two symmetrical elongated round-headed windows at ground level. There is a lean-to timber store with a cat-slide roof adjoining on the left, and the north range is set back with lean-to additions on the left. It has a corniced apex stack with altered stalks similar to those on the south.

The central block of the west range, facing the courtyard to the east, has two pend arches at ground level, a bipartite window on the first floor, and the dovecot with flight-holes and a bracketed cill in the attic. The west elevation has three windows and wallhead stacks with angle stalks on the north and south sides.

Inside, the accommodation for coachmen and grooms remains partly unaltered.

Local climate

Laws House Stable Court, Laws Hill receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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