Road Bridge, Balmuirfield House Lodge

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000020 Date Added 10/12/1991 Supplementary Information Updated 10/04/2025 Local Authority Angus Planning Authority Angus Parish Mains And Strathmartine NGR NO 39842 34068 Coordinates 339842, 734068 — Built sometime between 1858 and 1900, Balmuirfield Lodge is a rectangular-plan, two-storey, three-bay lodge. The ground floor is on a level with the arch of the bridge. There is a piend-roofed extension attached to the east elevation with a garage opening to the ground floor and a first floor window opening in the east gable. There is a harled advanced bay, supported on piers, projecting from the first floor of the north (rear) elevation, forming a T-plan footprint and added sometime between 1921 and the 1950s. There are the remains of a rear forestair. The west gable has a window opening to its right bay. The lodge is set back from Harestane Road, located over the brow of a small hill, at the edge of Dichty Water, at the southern entrance to the former Balmuirfield Mill/bleachfield site. The building is constructed in whitewashed rubble sandstone with ashlar quoins and long and short margins around the window openings. Many of the window openings are unglazed and those to the first floor of the front (south) elevation are boarded up. There are some uPVC casement windows in the upper rear of the building. The roof is pitched to the west and hipped to the east and covered in grey slates. The west elevation has plain bargeboards and there are corniced ridge chimneystacks. The interior of the lodge is now gone and is mostly stripped back to bare stone (2025). The adjoining single arch road bridge was constructed sometime between 1858 and 1900. The bridge has segmental arches with small irregular voussoirs and is built of rubble sandstone wi

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.