Archaeology Notes

Event ID 715321

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT47SE 13.00 49360 73339

(NT 4936 7333) Letham House: The centrepiece was originally a 17th century house with a projecting stair-tower at the E end. An ambitious rebuilding was planned about 1735, the date on a lintel of the E pavilion which is, like its fellow, of two storeys. However, the old house remained. Later in the 18th century it was given an E extension with its own projecting stair-tower; about 1800 its windows were enlarged, and about 1835 it was half-heartedly baronialised, with a little porch adjoining its recast tower. House and pavilions were separately modernised by different architects in the early 1970s without significant alteration to their exteriors.

In 1971, the steading to the W, originally of the early 18th century and now known as West Letham, was given a semi-octagonal tower with a pointed roof.

C McWilliam 1978