Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

FOREBANK HOUSE INCLUDING STEADING OUTBUILDINGS, GARDEN WALLS RAILINGS AND GATESLB16328

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Date Added
18/06/1972
Supplementary Information Updated
22/02/2022
Local Authority
Aberdeenshire
Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Parish
St Cyrus
NGR
NO 70095 64722
Coordinates
370095, 764722

Description

Dated 1757. Two-storey, five-bay classical dower house with basement and attics, white-washed rubble and painted margins, lugged ashlar architraved doorpiece with cornice and radial fanlight. The spacing between the outer pairs of windows is slightly wider. The deep gable ends are harled and have first floor oval window lighting central spinal corridor with twin oeil-de-boeuf attic windows; irregular fenestration to back, two central stair windows, two-window to left, one window to right with blind first floor.

The interior is largely unaltered and is known to retain fine timber panelling, likely dating to the 18th century.

Extensive range of simple rubble-built, single storey and loft steading buildings. Straight skews, moulded skew ends at older sections, slated.

Front garden wall with ball-capped gatepiers frame the approach to the front garden.

Statement of Special Interest

An outstanding example of a smaller laird's house of the 18th century, of 'fine design and execution' (BoS), which survives largely unaltered to the exterior and interior. According to the Buildings of Scotland, Forebank House is exceptional among similar houses of its period because generous double-pile plan and basement which contained services.

Originally known as Canterland Lodge, it was built as the dower house to Inglismaldie Castle belonging to the Earls of Kintore (see separate listing, LB16287). By the mid-19th century the house was still known as Canterland Lodge but was tenanted. According to the Ordnance Survey Name Book of 1863 it was described as 'a good substantial dwelling house and farm steading, the property of the Earl of Kintore of Keith Hall.' The name of the house changes sometime between 1863 and 1874 ('Forebank' cited in the Montrose Standard, 07/08/1874).

Supplementary information updated in 2022.

References

Bibliography

https://canmore.org.uk/site/36353/forebank

Maps

'Canterland' appears on William Roy's map of the Highlands (1747-52)

John Thomson's Atlas of Scotland 'Kincardineshire' (1822) Edinburgh : J. Thomson & Co., 1822.

Printed Sources

Caledonian Mercury (08/04/1794) 'House and Farm in Kincardineshire, p.3

Dunbar, J. Historic Architecture of Scotland, p 85, plate 49.

Geddes, J. (2001) Deeside and the Mearns: an illustrated architectural guide, Illustrated architectural guide series. Edinburgh. Page(s): 41

Ordnance Survey Name Book (1863) Kincardineshire volume 18, OS1/19/18/29, p.29

Sharples, J, Walker, D and Woodworth, M. The Buildings of Scotland: Aberdeenshire: South and Aberdeen, Yale University Press, 2015, p.666, 56 & 58

Online Sources

Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record, at https://online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/master/detail.aspx?Authority=ASH&refno=NO76SW0066

Sales particulars 2022 - Forebank of Canterland, Marykirk - Davidson and Robertson (drrural.co.uk)

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