Stables And Kennels, Glenmuick Estate

The Stables and Kennels at Glenmuick Estate date from the later 19th century and are a single-storey rectangular building featuring an integral covered central court accessed by an arched pend. This structure includes stables, accommodation for stable hands, equipment and livery stores, and later, kennels. It is located to the south of the rear of Glenmuick House. The building is constructed from squared and coursed rubble granite, with tooled granite skews and keystones. The roof is primarily piended, with gables on the north (principal) elevation.

On the north elevation, there are nine bays, which include a three-bay cottage with a gabled porch and a pair of gabled dormers. To the right, there is a gabled arched pend opening with a hayloft door above, and a gabled bay at the far right. To the left of the cottage, there is a two-bay gabled bay, with an additional gable at the far left. The west elevation features a doorway to the right of centre, flanked by a window on the right and 20th-century low wall kennel pens on the left, with low-level openings to the stables behind. The east elevation has two windows to the left of centre and a central window to an outshot.

The windows include 4-pane sash and case, plate glass casement, and top-hopper timber designs. The porch has fixed plate glass timber mullion and transomed windows, along with a glazed door, while other doors are made of boarded timber. The roof is grey slated with stone ridges, and there are corniced granite ridge stacks and a wallhead stack on the west and south sides. Simple clay cans, along with cast-iron rhones and rhone pipes, complete the exterior.

Inside, access was limited at the time of the survey in 2006. The large central covered court features exposed trusses and timber stud walls lined with wood. There is a boarded timber sliding door on the west side, flanked by windows that lead to the former stables. The ceiling is high with part-coomed design, incorporating a large circular ceiling vent. The stalls are timber boarded and topped with wrought-iron railings, and there are cast-iron gate posts with ball finials. The building has been converted to kennelling, with access doors leading to the kennel pens on the west elevation.