Panmure House

Panmure House was a 17th-century country mansion in Angus, six kilometres north of Carnoustie. It stood on the Panmure estate inherited by the Maule family in 1224. The house was begun in 1666 for George Maule, second Earl of Panmure, to designs by John Mylne. After Mylne’s death in 1667, Alexander Nisbet and James Bain continued the work. The fourth Earl added wings before the estate passed to the Earls of Dalhousie. In the 19th century Fox Maule commissioned David Bryce to extend the house in Scottish Baronial style. The house is notable for its early masonry construction and detailed interior finishes. James Bain installed the roof, floors, windows and doors between 1668 and 1670. Accounts mention between sixty-seven and a hundred windows. The floor used a broken-jointed system for a finer finish, while the roof was a coupled structure with collar beams. Plastering of principal rooms and construction of stables followed between 1672 and 1675. Painting of the main house took place from 1671 to 1675, with final fitting out completed in 1685–86. Today only the Panmure Testimonial and a stable block remain on the site. The 105-foot monument, designed by John Henderson, was erected in 1839 for William Maule, first Baron Panmure. The stable block dates from the 1670s and shows the scale of the original estate. Visitors can walk among the grassy remains and see the monument standing above the former drive. The site offers a quiet place to reflect on the house’s history and the landscape that once surrounded it.