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Kinloch House
Architectural Fragment(S) (17th Century), Armorial Panel (17th Century), Hotel (20th Century), House (18th Century) (1798), Sundial (18th Century) (1724)
Site Name Kinloch House
Classification Architectural Fragment(S) (17th Century), Armorial Panel (17th Century), Hotel (20th Century), House (18th Century) (1798), Sundial (18th Century) (1724)
Alternative Name(s) Old House Of Kinloch; Kinloch Hotel; Kings Of Kinloch
Canmore ID 72104
Site Number NO24SE 64
NGR NO 26760 44347
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/72104
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Coupar Angus
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Notes prepared by Simon Green for a visit by AHSS in May 2012
In 1798 the radical politician George Kinloch of Kinloch designed and built his own house. This five-bay two-storey house, with a basement, commands panoramic views to north and south. The central three bays were advanced beneath a pediment and the west elevation sported a pair of Venetian windows. Copies of the original drawings are held in the NMRS. The plan provided a a drawing room and dining room flanking a central hall leading to an axial stair with a service stair adjacent flanked by bedroom suites. The basement contained the kitchens and servants rooms and the first floor house bedrooms and a small parlour or library over the entrance hall. In the later 18th century a wing was added to the east end of the house.
By the mid 19th century a drawing room had been created behind the original southwest dining room replacing the original family bedroom and closet. In 1864 John Carver of Meigle provided plans for the creation of a new north wing which provided a large new drawing room accessed through the northwest drawing room. On the floor below were more servants’ bedrooms and a new dairy. The upper two floors of the new wing provided three bedrooms and dressing rooms. The drawings for this extension are in the NMRS. At the same time it appears that the new three- storey tower entrance was added which involved the removal of the pediment. This provided a suitably grand entrance to the enlarged house and was also presumably by Carver although no drawings survive. The Victorian drawing rooms survive. In the early 20th century a new panelled dining room was created to the east of the hall extending into the east wing along with a small business room. The original dining room west of the hall was refitted as a library. These alterations were by MacLaren, Sons & Salmond.
The gatepiers appear to date from the Victorian remodelling but the magnificent eagles may be Georgian and brought in from elsewhere..
STG 2014
NO24SE 64.00 26760 44347 Kinloch House
NO24SE 64.01 26729 44333 Walled Garden and Sundial
NMRS REFERENCE
Architect: George Kinloch - designs for house 1797
Richard Crichton (attribution) designs for house c. 1800
John Carver additions - 1864
MacLaren, Sons & Salmond additions - 1910
Field Visit (20 April 1989)
The old house of Kinloch, in ruins in 1791, was demolished and rebuilt about 1800; however, a number of stones incorporated into the walled garden (at NO 2658 4420) may have come from it.
Roughly central to the NNW wall of the walled garden, there is a 17th-century moulded entrance-doorway and above it an armorial with helm of Kinloch of Kinloch (parted per pale: dexter; a boar's head erased between three mascles: sinister, parted per fess; in chief a mascle, in third quarter a mascle; in base a mascle).
On the wall-head to the WSW, there is a sundial (1724), while over doorways in the WSW and ENE walls there are two shouldered pediments, one bearing the monogram initial 'M'. In re-use over a blocked doorway towards the N end of the WSW wall there is a lintel wrought with a mitred chamfer.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS) 20 April 1989.
