Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Gray House

Gray House, a mansion in Liff and Benvie parish, Forfarshire, 5 miles WNW of Dundee. Built by the tenth Lord Gray in 1715, it is a turreted edifice in the Manorial style, and stands in a finely wooded park of 200 acres. An oak, an ash, and a sycamore have a respective height of 65, 110, and 81 feet, and a girth of 261/6, 18¼, and 151/6 feet at 1 foot from the ground. With Kinfauns Castle, Gray House passed in 1878 to E. A. Stuart-Gray, Esq.—Ord. Sur., sh. 48, 1868.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Liff and Benvie Parish       Angus County

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