Building record MAB3576 - NEWBOLD HOUSE

Newbold House, conservatory and walled garden by Peter Fulton, architect, Forres, dated 1893.

Newbold House, conservatory and walled garden by Peter Fulton, architect, Forres, dated 1893. Asymmetrical gabled house with baronial details. Two-storeys with 3-bay west entrance front and south facing garden elevation. Bullfaced rubble with tooled and polished ashlar dressings. Substantial conservatory abuts east gable. Advanced and gabled centre bay at west with slightly projecting square porch. Segmental-headed entrance flanked by squat engaged cluster columns with stiff leafed capitals. Crenellated wallhead with monogrammed plaque inset above doorway and recessed panelled double leaf doors with wide side lights. South elevation with projecting ground floor rectangular window at southwest, also with crenellated wallhead. Advanced gable fronted by 2-storey projecting bowed windows with bowed piended stone slab roof and blocked eaves cornice. Gablets break wallhead above first floor windows, some with attic fenestration, others with decorative detailing, all with carved stone finials. Mullioned and transomed windows with single-pane plat glass glazing. Coped ridge and wallhead stacks and slate roofs. Large rectangular aisled conservatory abuts west gable. Projecting centre porch, interior supported by slender cast-iron cluster columns, centre aisle roof raised, decorative cast-iron angle braces. Linked to house by doorway from dining room. Substantial rubble walled garden at rear with tooled cope. Large greenhouse with decorative ridge brattishing and abutting boiler house with tall brick chimney. Newbold House was built by Colonel John Woodcock. Though dated 1893 the house was probably constructed circa 1900 (it appears, with conservatory on 2nd edition OS 1905). In 1893 the architects Ross and Macbeth of Inverness advertised for tenders for building Newbold House.

Period Notes
Listed 23/01/1989

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Sep 1 2022 3:36PM