Hearse House, Parish Church, Fowlis Easter is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Hearse house.

Hearse House, Parish Church, Fowlis Easter

WRENN ID
white-bonework-merlin
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 June 1971
Type
Hearse house
OS grid reference
NO 321 334
Coordinates
56.48848, -3.10303
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Hearse House at the Parish Church in Fowlis Easter, dated 1841, is a two-storey building with a rectangular plan and a low single-storey addition. It is constructed from snecked rubble with stugged ashlar dressings that have droved margins, chamfered at the openings. The roof is covered with grey slate and is half-piended at the addition. Most of the windows are sash and case, featuring a 12-lying-pane design on the west side and an 8-pane design on the addition. The building has deep eaves with exposed purlins and brackets, as well as corniced ridge stacks.

On the east elevation, there is a boarded door to the stable located in the centre left, with a stone forestair to the left that has iron balusters and a handrail leading to a platt and door at the first floor. To the right, there are paired boarded doors leading to the hearse house, and a door and window are found in a slightly recessed single-storey bay at the far right.

The south gable features a window to the right, with timber casements at the bottom and six fixed panes at the top, along with a small six-pane window on the first floor. The west elevation has two windows on the first floor.

Inside, the building contains a two-stall stable with timber trevis and hecks, and a cobbled floor. There is also a room on the first floor, which was formerly two rooms, featuring two chimneypieces and moulded cornices.

Local climate

Hearse House, Parish Church, Fowlis Easter 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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