Forfar, 13 Couttie's Wynd

A fine house still standing at the foot of Couttie's Wynd is 13 Couttie's Wynd. It was built around 1800, Couttie's Wynd having been opened only by about 1766, to ease the increasing pressure for dwellings in Forfar's town centre. A two-storeyed dwelling of two parallel rubble-built blocks, with a crenellated triangular section in the re-entrant angle, its south-facing fa:;ade has three windows, with a central architraved doorpiece with fluted frieze and a centre wallhead chimney. A low, two-storeyed wing at its west has original glazing. This is a further example of quality building to be found in the booming osnaburg-producing Forfar.

Information from ‘Historic Forfar: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (2000).