Lunan Bank House, Inverkeilor is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Lunan Bank House, Inverkeilor
- WRENN ID
- lunar-render-rowan
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Lunan Bank House is an early 19th-century farmhouse located on the southern banks of the Lunan Water, five miles north of Arbroath, in an agricultural landscape. It is a two-storey, three-bay building in classical style with a rectangular plan. The central block is flanked by projecting single-storey wings on either side.
The principal (west) elevation is largely symmetrical, rendered in finish, with walls built of coursed red sandstone rubble with squared-rubble rybats and projecting margins. The main entrance features a pilastered doorpiece with an entrance door flanked by colonettes with decorative carved capitals. The single-storey wings have segmental arch window recesses and parapetted eaves over a moulded cornice. The windows are predominantly twelve-pane timber sash and case. The roof is slated with red ashlar sandstone chimney stacks at the gable ends of the central block and flat stone skews with stepped skewputts.
The north elevation is three-bays with a central door opening created after 2013. The rear (east) elevation has a gable-fronted single-storey return with an attic, thought to date from the early to mid-19th century. It contains two sets of openings for birds on its east elevation. The south elevation has a single enlarged window opening and two modern rooflights.
The interior, seen in 2018, retains features of the 19th-century decorative scheme. The southern principal rooms on the ground and first floor have fireplaces with classical motifs. The central entrance hall features a curved stone staircase with a cast iron and timber stair rail. The ground floor has flag-stone flooring, with simple cornicing, panelled window surrounds and working shutters throughout the house, and wooden six-panel doors.
The house was renovated in 2013 and is currently in domestic use.
To the immediate southeast of the farmhouse is a large rectangular-plan walled garden dating from the early 19th century. It has tall rubble and coped red sandstone walls which are curved at the corners, with the entrance at the centre of the northwest wall. The entrance gates were removed around the early 21st century. An early 19th-century retaining wall of coursed rubble bounds the garden to the north of the house. This wall adjoins a pair of square-plan, red sandstone gate piers with pyramidal caps at the northwest entrance to the house, and abuts the rear of the former coach house at the northeast entrance to the steading complex.
To the northeast of the farmhouse is a small, single-storey rectangular-plan outbuilding dating to the early 19th century, likely a former coach house. It is built of coursed red ashlar sandstone with raised margins and pointed gable ends. The principal east elevation features a segmental-arched entrance with double-leaf timber doors.
The house is surrounded by contemporary structures associated with the former farm.
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