Glencadam House, Brechin

Glencadam House in Brechin is a large free neo-Jacobean mansion built around 1870 by James MacLaren. The house is two stories with an attic and constructed from coursed rubble, featuring a semi-symmetrical ashlar west front with three bays. The outer bays are advanced and gabled, each topped with corbelled octagonal chimney shafts. The left bay has a shallow tripartite window on the ground floor, a broken-segmental pediment above with a bipartite window on the first floor, and an arched attic window with a keyblock. The right bay features a canted bay window that extends through both floors, with a parapet raised in a gablet and finished with a finial.

The recessed center bay includes a ground floor porch that projects slightly forward of the flanking gabled bays. This porch has a tripartite design, a stilted entablature supported by anta pilasters, and a pierced parapet. The north and south elevations each have three bays, with the center bays slightly advanced and gabled. The north front's center bay has a ground floor tripartite window and a first-floor bipartite window with a strapwork head. The south elevation is partly covered by a conservatory, featuring a center first-floor hood-moulded tripartite window and a cantilevered stone balcony with an iron rail.

The roof is slated with straight skews, and the gable stacks are stop-chamfered with moulded copes. To the east of the house, there are single-storey offices with louvred ventilators, and a walled court at the rear includes a garden wall with polygonal gatepiers.