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Summary

Description

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.

Statement of Special Interest

Newton House built by George Forteath in 1793; it passed

to his nephew Alexander Williamson (who took the name

of Forteath) in 1815. Alexander Forteath was factor for

the Trustees of the Earl of Fife's estates and took an

active role in the public life of Moray. The property

remained in the Forteath family until the 1930s.

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