Mains Of Gourdie
Cropmark(S) (Period Unknown), Enclosure (Period Unknown), House (17th Century) - (18th Century)
Site Name Mains Of Gourdie
Classification Cropmark(S) (Period Unknown), Enclosure (Period Unknown), House (17th Century) - (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Old House Of Gourdie; Gourdie House
Canmore ID 28956
Site Number NO14SW 37
NGR NO 1212 4194
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/28956
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Caputh
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO14SW 37 1210 4195.
See also NO14SW 62.
Cropmarks show evidence of rectilinear enclosures with the outline of a substantial stone building in one of them. These may be the remains of the original Gourdie House which is thought to have been located in this area; the present house (NO14SW 62) is situated on higher ground to the north.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 5 April 1989.
Aerial Photographic Transcription (13 December 1989)
An aerial transcription was produced from oblique aerial photographs. Information from Historic Environment Scotland (BM) 31 March 2017.
Field Visit (3 May 1989)
The site of the old house of Gourdie is probably indicated by a stony spread (about 55m from WSW to ENE by 35m transversely overall) within a cultivated field some 350m to the SSW of the present house (1765). Cropmarks here reveal the presence of what may be a ditched enclosure with an entrance on the ENE, within which there are traces of a rectangular structure, possibly a building; other markings in the field may be derived from the policies of the house. Incorporated into a wing on the W side of the 18th-century house (NO14SW 62) there is a dormer pediment (wrought with a mitred-chamfer) bearing the date 1661 and the initials GN/MK, and beneath it a lintel (wrought with a bull-nosed moulding) bearing the date 1674 and the initials DK (David Kinloch); both have probably been removed from the earlier house. A number of jamb-stones wrought with bull-nosed mouldings are incorporated in outhouses to the rear of the main block. Both the walled garden (NO 1224 4210) and precinct wall of Gourdie (NO 1255 4223) may incorporate fabric of late 17th- or early 18th-century date. The Kinlochs have been in possession of Gourdie since at least 1603; the house and policies are depicted by Roy. Visited by RCAHMS (IMS) 3 May 1989. W Roy 1747-55; R Douglas 1798.
Field Visit (1996 - 2003)
Russell Coleman managed an Historic Scotland funded project to record medieval moated sites in Scotland. Gazetteers were produced for each regional council area between 1996 and 2002 with an uncompleted overall review in 2002-03. The results of the first year of the project were published in Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, Volume 3 (1997).
