Lundie, Main Road, Arncroach

Simple 19th century, single storey, 3-bay, rubble-built,

gabled cottage with low 2-bay wing to east: altered circa

1903 by Sir Robert Lorimer for his blacksmith. Central 2-leaf

door flanked by 2-storey square projecting bay windows, slate

hung over ground floor with wide eaves and bell-cast roofs,

bays linked by swept-roofed porch; skews, end and slate roof.

Low wing has door and window, single tall stack and pantile

roof.

3 decorative wrought-iron gates, 2 at least by James Bennet,

blacksmith, Arncroach; 3rd, with curvilinear design and name

"Lundie", possibly designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and set

into rubble-built garden wall. One gate, dated 1889 with

letters "J B" (for James Bennet): gate, with tall slender

gatepiers and overthrow, leading to vegetable garden,

designed by Rev T P Johnstone, minister, Carnbee, and made by

James Bennet, 1870: brought to Lundie Cottage 1905.