Glencadam House, Brechin is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 April 1979. Mansion. 4 related planning applications.
Glencadam House, Brechin
- WRENN ID
- spare-corbel-fen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1979
- Type
- Mansion
- Address
- Glencadam House, Brechin, DD9 7RT
- OS grid reference
- NO 601 609
- Coordinates
- 56.73818, -2.65272
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Glencadam House, Brechin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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