Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

NEWMILNS, 123 MAIN STREET, THE MORTON HALL WITH BOUNDARY WALLLB50036

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
23/12/2004
Local Authority
East Ayrshire
Planning Authority
East Ayrshire
Parish
Loudoun
NGR
NS 53820 37363
Coordinates
253820, 637363

Description

Arthur Harrison, 1896. Single storey, 6-bay, roughly rectangular-plan, gabled Jacobethan-style public hall with lower 2-bay section to side, advanced gabled porch, 2 crowstep-gabled windows, copper vent to roof and mid-20th century flat-roofed brick addition to rear. Red Ballochmyle sandstone ashlar. Base course, cill course, eaves course. Buttresses dividing bays to front and rear; transomed, mullioned bipartite windows with arched lights in moulded rectangular margins.

SOUTH (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: crowstep-gabled porch advanced to left: 2-leaf timber panelled door with 3-light fanlight; tablet above inscribed THE MORTON HALL in raised letters; Jacobethan style pilastered architrave supporting armorial device with scrolled pediment above; decorative side buttresses. Transomed, mullioned windows to right and 2 centre bays; slightly taller windows breaking eaves to inner left and right bays with crowstepped gables and shouldered side buttresses. Lower wing to right with timber panelled door and canted bay window breaking eaves.

EAST ELEVATION: shouldered stack to centre of wing with flanking transomed lights; small bipartite to gable apex of main building; brick addition to right.

NORTH (REAR) ELEVATION: 5 bays divided by buttresses; advanced gabled bay to right with bipartite window; flat-roofed extension in front.

WEST ELEVATION: end gable with bricked-up door in roll-moulded architrave to left. Predominantly square-pane leaded lights. Ashlar-coped skews with skewputts. Corniced stack with red clay cans. Graded grey slate with terracotta ridge tiles.

INTERIOR: trussed ceiling and timber stage to main hall; Jacobethan style chimneypiece to council room; timber panelled doors throughout.

BOUNDARY WALL: low coped sandstone boundary wall to South.

Statement of Special Interest

A well-detailed hall standing prominently on Main Street, and of great value to the streetscape. The building contains a large public hall with a stage, and several smaller rooms. It was donated to Newmilns by William Morton, a native of Newmilns who made his money in Birmingham. The hall is an unusual example of civic pride and generosity of a local nouveau riche; parallels can be drawn with the Carnegie libraries and halls that graced Scotland on a wider scale. Arthur Harrison (1862-1922) was a Birmingham-based architect whose other works included the council chambers in Birmingham. The building contractor for Morton Hall was Matthew Muir &Co of Kilmarnock.

References

Bibliography

BUILDING INDUSTRIES, Vol 7, No 73 April 1896 (information courtesy of Rob Close). Rob Close, AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN (1992), p132

About Listed Buildings

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We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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