Basic Site Details Name: | Newton House | Town, district or village: | Alves | City or county: | Morayshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | B listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | HS listed building record:
Dated 1793 and 1852. Additions and alterations with some internal remodelling, Thomas Mackenzie, 1852. Tall 2-storey and attic house over raised basement (3-storey, U-plan rear), 5-bays, S facing. Harled with tooled and polished ashlar margins and dressings. Plain late 18th century house with 1852 embellishments, particularly to upper storey. Advanced and gabled centre bay with 1852 porch approached by flight of steps oversailing raised basement; pilastered and corniced entrance with florid Jacobean detailing, lunette and banded obelisk finials; tall canted 1st floor window above. Plain chamfered margins to ground and 1st floor windows; carved and monogrammed pediments to 1852 dormers; corbelled angle bartizans with conical bellcast fishscale slated roofs; moulded corbel and string courses; decorative water spouts. Projecting wing set back at E with raised ground floor canted oriel with corbelled base decorated with masks and with corbelled stone roof. 2 rear wings project to form U-plan service court. Mainly 4-pane glazing. Crowstepped gables; end batteries of coped stacks with diamond flues; slate roofs. Small sun porch (circa 1975) at W of house. INTERIOR- entrance hall re-modelled by Thomas Mackenzie 1852 with arcaded and columned screen, rounded-headed niches and deep mouldings. Curved 1793 cantilevered staircase rises full-height with plain balusters and moulded risers. DRAWING ROOM: 1852 marble chimneypiece, ceiling cornice and doorway, flanked by glazed wall cupboards, linking back sitting room. DINING ROOM: black marble chimneypiece; simple panelled dado and mouljded ceiling cornice. 1st FLOOR: some evidence of remodelling of former 1st floor drawing-room area; 18th century fielded panelled doors survive in 1st floor. GATEPIERS (MAIN ENTRANCE): pair plain square ashlar gatepiers with pulvinated string course, moulded cornice and ball finials. WALLED GARDEN: circa 1800 walled garden extends to N of house; coped rubble walls.
There was a major fire in 1992 and the building is now gutted and roofless. There are plans by William Lippe Architects (Insch) to re-roof it and convert it into five flats. (Matthew Woodworth) |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1793 | | | Original house | | 1852 | | | Additions and laterations with some internal remodelling | | 1992 | | Destruction/demolition | Major fire - building now gutted and roofless. |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | James Matthews | | A | 1852 | | Additions and laterations with some internal remodelling | | Mackenzie & Matthews | | A | 1852 | | Additions and laterations with some internal remodelling | | Thomas Mackenzie | | A | 1852 | | Additions and laterations with some internal remodelling |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Forteath, Alex | Client for alterations | | Forteath, George | Original client |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Walker, David W and Woodworth, Matthew | 2015 | The Buildings of Scotland: Aberdeenshire North and Moray | | Yale University Press | pp446, 465 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Elgin Courant | 20 October 1854 | | | Obituary of Thomas Mackenzie | | Elgin Courier | 12 December 1851 | | | Tenders | | Elgin Courier | 19 December 1851 | | | Tenders | | Elgin Courier | 26 December 1851 | | | Tenders |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Courtesy of Matthew Woodworth | Information via 'Contact Us' on website | | Sent November 2013 | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 2327 | |
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