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We used the OSIRIS camera at the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) tomonitor the astrometric motion of the L4.5 dwarf 2M1821$+$14 over 17 months.The astrometric residuals of eleven epochs have a r.m.s. dispersion of 0.4 mas,which is larger than the average precision of 0.23 mas per epoch and hintstowards an additional signal or excess noise. Comparison of thepoint-spread-functions in OSIRIS and FORS2/VLT images reveals no differencescritical for high-precision astrometry, despite the GTC's segmented primarymirror. We attribute the excess noise to an unknown effect that may beuncovered with additional data. For 2M1821$+$14, we measured a relativeparallax of $106.15 \pm 0.18$ mas and determined a correction of $0.50\pm0.05$mas to absolute parallax, leading to a distance of $9.38 \pm0.03$ pc. Weexcluded at 3-$\sigma$ confidence the presence of a companion to 2M1821$+$14down to a mass ratio of 0.1 ($\approx 5\, M_\mathrm{Jupiter}$) with a period of50--1000 days and a separation of 0.1--0.7 au. The accurate parallax allowed usto estimate the age and mass of 2M1821$+$14 of 120--700 Myr and0.049$^{+0.014}_{-0.024}$ M$_\odot$, thus confirming its intermediate age andsubstellar mass. We complement our study with a parallax and proper motioncatalogue of 587 stars ($i'\simeq15.5-22$) close to 2M1821$+$14, used asastrometric references. This study demonstrates sub-mas astrometry with theGTC, a capability applicable for a variety of science cases including thesearch for extrasolar planets and relevant for future astrometric observationswith E-ELT and TMT.

Parallax of the L4.5 dwarf 2M1821$+$14 from high-precision astrometry with OSIRIS at GTC