Coupar Angus, 2 Calton Street, Cumberland Barracks

Cumberland Barracks figures 11 & 19.K, 2 Calton Street, named after the duke of Cumberland who led the government forces against the supporters of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, is a significant building in the town. A reminder of more troubled Limes, it was built in the seventeenth or eighteenth century. Coupar Angus stood al the south end of two roads constructed in the eighteenth century for rapid movement of forces and efficient supplying of remote garrisons. The principal route led via Blairgowrie and Braemar to Fort George on the Moray Firth; Coupar was probably for many men their last stay in the Lowlands. The cast wing, which was formerly crowstepped, is the earliest portion of the building; it was extended into a three-storyed L-plan structure, with a square staircase in the re-entrant angle.

Buildings which have more than one phase of construction may have earlier structural features sealed within the fabric itself; hidden by later additions. Cumberland Barracks, having seen two phases of construction in its history, may have structural elements of the earlier phase scaled within the later fabric, for example behind blocked up doorways.

Information from ‘Historic Coupar Angus: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1997).