Auchtermeggities, Balmadies House
Country House (Period Unassigned), Garden (Period Unassigned), Landscape (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Auchtermeggities, Balmadies House
Classification Country House (Period Unassigned), Garden (Period Unassigned), Landscape (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Ochterlony
Canmore ID 110149
Site Number NO54NE 52
NGR NO 55273 49705
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/110149
- Council Angus
- Parish Rescobie
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
Balmadies House is a villa-mansion house with the Mains Farm 0.35 km west of the house. It lies on the 70 metre contour line, south of the A932 Forfar to Friockheim road. It is set in wooded policies and gardens with a walled garden to the south-west. It is protected from the north-east by a strip of woodland through which the drive passes. The present villa- house replaced a previous 17th century house. The house and farm were built in 1821 by George Sharp, mason in Edinburgh for Henry Stephens, an agriculturalist and author of Book of the Farm to replace the previous 17th century house.
Information from the Angus Recording Group of the garden History Society in Scotland, 2015
NO54NE 52.00 55273 49705 Balmadies House
NO54NE 52.01 55130 49745 Stables
NO54NE 52.02 Cancelled
NO54NW 45 54963 49691 Mains of Balmadies
NO54NW 69 54064 49560 Red Lodge
NO55SE 48 55089 50355 North Lodge
NO55NE 49 55145 50105 Bridge
