Standing Building Recording

Date 22 January 2009 - 10 February 2009

Event ID 603317

Category Recording

Type Standing Building Recording

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/603317

NO 5969 6018 Brechin Town House is on a corner between the High Street and Church Street. The High Street frontage, built between 1789 and 1790 to replace the earlier tollbooth on the same site, is well recorded. However, during the reconstruction of the Town House a number of previously unknown features relating to the building at 2–4 Church Street, the Church Street elevation and a number of internal structures were exposed. The structural evidence suggests that this building was built soon after the High Street frontage. It was possible to trace the original form of the Church Street façade and compare it with a drawing from 1867 and a photograph from c1900. In the early 19th century this end of the building held the cells and later a police office. A blocked internal doorway would have given access to the cells. A drainage trench below the floor inside the new toilets revealed a short section of wall foundation which may be part of the wall footings of the

original 15th-century tollbooth. These features were recorded 22 January–10 February 2009.

Report: Aberdeenshire SMR and RCAHMS

Funder: Angus Council

HK Murray and JC Murray – Murray Archaeological Services Ltd