Sites and Monument Record: Carbrook House (SMR 607)
Description
Large Georgian mansion, now demolished. The cellars remain.
The estate occupied the gently north-facing slope on the south side of the Tor Burn at Torwood. The house was tucked into a terrace created by quarrying a stone escarpment. An even larger quarry lay to the SW and this was landscaped with numerous paths. An octagonal grotto was built into the terrace immediately south of the house. The main approach road was from the SE where a lodge stood beside the turnpike road to Stirling (at NS 8425 8512). A second road came off the minor road to Plean, passing along the north side of the Tor Burn before turning S to the house. It crosses the stream by a substantial stone bridge at NS 8377 8569. A little further down stream is a narrower bridge with an arch made of large fireclay voussoirs. This was a foot bridge leading to the walled garden and is reached by an embankment.
The stables stood 60m WNW from the house and took the form of a substantial courtyarded building with a tower over the entrance pend. 40m west of these were two gasometers (at NS 8371 8545). Their foundations can still be traced and consist of a three brick wide circle. They only appear on the 2nd ed OS map.
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