Glencadam House, Brechin

James MacLaren, circa 1870. Sizable free neo-Jacobean

mansion, 2-storey and attic, coursed rubble with

semi-symmetrical ashlar west front, 3 bays, outer bays

advanced and gabled with corbelled octagonal chimney shafts,

left-hand bay has shallow ground floor tripartite,

broken-segmental pediment first floor bipartite, arched attic

window with keyblock; right-hand gable canted bay through

both floors, parapet raised in gablet with finial;

recessed centre bay contains ground floor porch projecting

slightly forward of flanking gabled bays, tripartite

treatment, stilted entablature on anta pilasters, pierced

parapet, single window with dormer head above N and S

elevations 3-bay, centre bays slightly advanced and gabled,

centre bay at N front has ground floor tripartite and 1st

floor bipartite with strapwork head, S elevation partly

overlaid by conservatory, centre 1st hood-moulded tripartite, cantilevered stone balcony with iron rail. Slated roof with

straight skews, stop-chamfered gable stacks with moulded

copes. Single-storey offices with louvred ventilators on E of

walled, court to rear, Garden wall with polygonal gatepiers.