A9 Dualling Programme: Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing Environmental Baseline Report Appendix D: Cultural Heritage Assets Gazetteer Appendix D: Cultural Heritage Assets Gazetteer Asset Number 1 Asset Name Byres Of Murthly, Tunnel / Pass Of Birnam Railway Tunnel NGR NO0566539058 Type Railway Tunnel Designation None Scheduled Monument Reference None Listed Building Reference None HER Reference MPK7978 Value Low Condition Good Description Tunnel [NAT] OS 1:10,000 map, 1982. [1] References [1] Perth and Kinross Historic Environment Record Asset Number 2 Asset Name Bee Cottage, Pass Of Birnam NGR NO0526639166 Type Cottage Designation Category B Listed Building Scheduled Monument Reference None Listed Building Reference 11144 HER Reference MPK2269 Value Medium Condition Good Description Single-storey asymmetrical, rubble-built in Murthly estate manner with broad-eaved roof, bay window, fanciful finials to gables, diamond bordered glazing c.1840. [1] No additional information. [2] References [1] Historic Scotland [2] Perth and Kinross Historic Environment Record Asset Number 3 Asset Name Birnam Burn, Bridge NGR NO0571139520 Type Road Bridge Designation Category C Listed Building Scheduled Monument Reference None Listed Building Reference 13737 Page 1 of Appendix D A9 Dualling Programme: Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing Environmental Baseline Report Appendix D: Cultural Heritage Assets Gazetteer HER Reference MPK13548 Value Low Condition Good Description Single arch, rubble, no parapets, probably 18th cent. [1] No additional information. [2] References [1] Historic Scotland [2] Perth and Kinross Historic Environment Record Asset Number 4 Asset Name Birnam Burn, Roman Style Bridge NGR NO0570339536 Type Road Bridge Designation Category A Listed Building Scheduled Monument Reference None Listed Building Reference 11145 HER Reference MPK2275 Value High Condition Good Description 6-arch over deep ravine in Roman aqueduct manner: rustic masonry: heavy corbelled refuge at each spandril, crenelated parapet and wide approaches. Mid 19th cent. [1] No additional information. [2] References [1] Historic Scotland [2] Perth and Kinross Historic Environment Record Asset Number 5 Asset Name Dalpowie Hospital, Dalpowie House (Site Of) NGR NO0514039660 Type Hospital, Country House Designation None Scheduled Monument Reference None Listed Building Reference None HER Reference MPK12029 Value Low Condition Unknown Description NMRS REFERENCE: Unable to locate at time of upgrade, 30.01.2110. There are two hospitals in the area and one on 1st edition Perthshire OS map, NO03NE, 0514 3966. EXTERNAL REFERENCE: SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE:- Measure and Valuation of the work done on the hospital. Valuation amounts to #106.19.3, 1790. Page 2 of Appendix D A9 Dualling Programme: Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing Environmental Baseline Report Appendix D: Cultural Heritage Assets Gazetteer Measurer: Thomas Menzies. GD 121/Box 49/279. The Hospital. Request to Sir George Steuart of Grandtully from Lewis Grant. He asks for 2 rooms at the hospital. He wishes to fit them up at his own expense in lieu of rent and would also like a space of ground before the house for a garden, 1822. GD 121/Box 100/Vol.xix/100/1. Building of the Hospital. Included in the balance of the account between Sir George Steuart of Grandtully and Thomas Halliburton for work done 1735-1737, 1750. GD121/Box/49/278. Wright work done at the hospital belonging to Sir George Steuart of Grandtully. Account amounting to #151.6.5 from Thomas Hallyburton, 1736-1737. GD 121/Box49/278. NMRS REFERENCE House depicted on the 1st edition of the OS map (Perthshire, 1854, sheet LXII, 14). [1] References [1] Perth and Kinross Historic Environment Record Asset Number 6 Asset Name Rohallion, Buffalo Hut NGR NO0444339883 Type Hut Designation Category B Listed Building Scheduled Monument Reference None Listed Building Reference 50775 HER Reference None Value Medium Condition Good Description Probably circa 1840. Tiny, intricately-detailed, circular hut sited high on hill overlooking Buffalo Park, part of Rohallion's designed landscape. Incorporating conical roof, large gabled porch, tall circular stack projecting at rear, and deep-set roundheaded openings with narrow voussoirs, some openings with rubble infill (original), some with boarded timber doors and some appearing as lancets. Mixed rubble construction with larger rubble base and quoin stones, some squared. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafters. FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 2-leaf boarded timber door with decorative ironwork hinges, and window openings also with timber boarded doors/shutters. Cobbled floor. Grey slate roof. INTERIOR: rustic half-round timbered walls and low benches to porch and hut interior, latter also with large stone fireplace. Built for Sir William Drummond Stewart of Murthly Castle, this astonishing, well-detailed hut was erected to house two Native Americans who had accompanied Sir William on his return to Murthly at the end of the 1830s. The Indians were themselves accompanied by Antoine, a `half-breed' trained as a butler, who was intended to restrain them from any savage or wild behaviour. Sir William had so fallen in love with the American Wild West, that he shipped some buffalo across to Scotland, and built the Buffalo Park at Rohallion, bringing the Indians to look after the animals. The buffalo were cared for by Lord Breadalbane at Taymouth until buffalo grass seed had ripened in 'an enclosure ... not far from Rohallion measuring five or six miles in circumference. The area was enclosed by a stone fence topped by several strands of thick wire'. Much of the `stone fence' enclosing Buffalo Park is still evident today (2006), with monumental square-section gatepiers flanking openings. The Buffalo Hut is sited high up on a hill to the NW of the Park, with a crenellated wall forming a lookout with spectacular views across the Perthshire countryside to the River Tay and beyond. When newly built, views of Murthly Castle would have been clearly visible from this location. 'In August, 1842, restless again, Stewart decided on one last farewell expedition to the American west. To the relief of the locals, he took his three savages with him'. However, during his absence 'Stewart found his buffaloes had got out of hand. One had killed a postman and others had broken free to roam the hills. They were reluctantly given to Lord Breadalbane and ended their days at Woburn Abbey's nature park', (Scottish Memories). [1] Page 3 of Appendix D A9 Dualling Programme: Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing Environmental Baseline Report Appendix D: Cultural Heritage Assets Gazetteer No additional information. [2] References [1] Historic Scotland [2] Perth and Kinross Historic Environment Record Asset Number 7 Asset Name Ringwood Lodge, Cottage NGR NO0449040200 Type Lodge, Cottage Designation None Scheduled Monument Reference None Listed Building Reference None HER Reference MPK2467 Value Low Condition Good Description No additional information. [1] References [1] Perth and Kinross Historic Environment Record Asset Number 8 Asset Name Newtyle Standing Stones NGR NO0450141067 Type Standing Stones Designation Scheduled Monument Scheduled Monument Reference 1541 Listed Building Reference None HER Reference MPK2482 Value High Condition Good Description The monument comprises two standing stones of prehistoric date. The monument was first scheduled in 1930 and rescheduled in 1965. It is being rescheduled yet again in order to clarify the extent of the scheduled area. The monument lies in mixed woodland at about 70m OD. It comprises two standing stones, aligned N-S and set about 3m apart. The N stone is about 2.1m high, and the S stone is approximately 1.6m high. The monument relates to ritual activity of Neolithic or Bronze Age date. The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material may be expected to be found. It is a truncated circle on plan with a maximum diameter of 30m, bounded by the edge of a road to the SW, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract. Above-ground elements of the modern boundary fence are excluded from the scheduling. [1] This monument comprises a pair of prehistoric standing stones located to the NE of the A984 road, unusually positioned at the foot of a steep slope at the rear of a terrace overlooking the River Tay. The N stone, which leans slightly to the W, rises to a height of 2.1m, and the S stone is 1.6m high. It is unlikely that these standing stones are the remains of a stone circle, as has been suggested in the past. (NO 0449 4107) Standing Stones (NR) OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed. (1901) Two standing stones, possibly the remains of a circle (1). A pair of standing stones, 9' apart and aligned N-S. "A" measures 7'2" x 4'9" x 1'9" and "B" is 4'9" x 4'2" x 1'6" (4). A "two-poster" as described. There is no evidence to suggest a stone circle. Surveyed at 1:10560 scale. Page 4 of Appendix D A9 Dualling Programme: Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing Environmental Baseline Report Appendix D: Cultural Heritage Assets Gazetteer Visited by OS (RD) 22 February 1971 This pair of standing stones lies to the NE of the public road (A984) and is unusually situated at the foot of a steep slope at the rear of a terrace overlooking the River Tay. The N stone, which leans slightly to the W, rises to a height of 2.1m, and the S stone is 1.6m high. Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 8 October 1986. [2] A site inspection on 6 July 2015 observed that the setting supports the understanding of the relationship of the monument’s chosen location within the wider landscape but is partly compromised by roadside planting associated with the A984. [3] References [1] Historic Scotland [2] Perth and Kinross Historic Environment Record [3] Site inspection 6 July 2015 DMRB Stage 2 chapter Asset Number 9 Asset Name Newtyle Quarries (Site of) NGR NO0449441276 Type Slate Quarry, Road, Adit Designation None Scheduled Monument Reference None Listed Building Reference None HER Reference MPK14525 Value Negligible Condition Unknown Description The 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps depict the quarrying complex at Newtyle.