Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

TORWOOD HOUSELB13228

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
15/02/1993
Local Authority
Aberdeenshire
Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Parish
Fettercairn
NGR
NO 61183 71526
Coordinates
361183, 771526

Description

Circa 1829, symmetrical neo-classical villa. Single storey and basement with fine polished grey sandstone ashlar entrance (S) elevation and red sandstone rubble rear elevations; double bow-ended plan, wide, 3-bay S front with colonnaded bowed entrance portico, narrow on plan (single apartment depth); later gabled rear wing of stugged red sandstone rubble. Roofless, with rear and end walls partially collapsed, interior mostly lost (1992).

S ELEVATION: wide, symmetrical front, 3 bays slightly advanced in front of semi-circular bowed ends; plinth with recessed panel at ground, broadeaves band, cornice and blocking course. Broad shallow-projecting bowed and colonnaded portico centrepiece, raised on plinth, with tetrastyle Greek Doric order in antis, columns three-quarter fluted (lower quarter plain), squarep-plan abaci, entablature without frieze, shallow projecting cornice and blocking course; door to centre and narrow full-height windows flanking (boarded up in 1959 photographs). Mullioned tripartite windows to either side, orignally with sash and case glazing, 12-pane to main windows, 4-pane (2 over 2) to side lights.

REAR ELEVATION: grey sandtsone polished ashlar tripartite set into red rubble rear wall, and enclosed by later rear wing addition. Small compartment in rear (NE) re-entrant angle. 3-bay rear wing with brick apex stack, extended at a later date by a single bay, with 3 regular openings at ground on N gable.

INTERIOR: fireplaces at centre of rear (N) walls in each of 2 apartments, single windows flanking in right hand (E) apartment (see NOTES).

Statement of Special Interest

A very fine example of revived Greek architecture, built towards the end of the first Greek Revival movement which began in Scotland with the building of the Glasgow Courthouse by William Stark in c 1807-14.

Ruined at the time of listing; proposals to restore and extend under discusion (1992).

References

Bibliography

NMRS photographs, 1959, David Walker and Colin McWilliam show shallow pitched , piended slated roof, pair symmetrically placed corniced stacks over rear wallheads (for fireplaces which are centrally placed in each room); interior views show walls lined in lath and plaster, plaster lined out as ashlar, and 6-panelled door flanked by niches in entrance hall.

THE GREEK REVIVAL, J Mordaunt Crook, 1972, illustrated, plate 137.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

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)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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