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Summary

Description

Peter Fulton, architect, Forres, dated 1893. Asymmetrical

gabled house with baronial details; 2-storeys with 3-bay W

entrance front and S facing garden elevation. Bullfaced

rubble, tooled and polished ashlar dressings. Substantial

conservatory abuts E gable.

Advanced and gabled centre bay at W with slightly projecting

square porch; segmental-headed entrance flanked by squat

engaged cluster columns with stiff leaft capitals;

crenellated wallhead with monogrammed plaque inset above

doorway; recessed panelled double leaf doors with wide side

lights.

S elevation with projecting ground floor rectangular window

at SW, also with crenellated wallhead; advanced SE gable

fronted by 2-storey projecting bowed windows with bowed

piended stone slab roof and blocked eaves cornice; gablets

break wallhead above 1st floor windows, some with attic

fenestration, others with decorative detailing, all with

carved stone finials. Mullioned and transomed windows with

single-pane plat glass glazing. Coped ridge and wallhead

stacks; slate roofs.

CONSERVATORY: large rectangular aisled conservatory abuts W

gable; projecting centre porch; interior supported by slender

cast-iron cluster columns, centre aisle roof raised,

decorative cast-iron angle braces. Linked to house by doorway

from dining room.

INTERIOR: spacious panelled entrance/stairhall with wooden

cantilivered staircase with panelled dado, turned balusters

and newel posts.

DRAWING ROOM: high white painted panelled dado, wooden

chimneypiece with paired reeded pilasters supporting

mantelshelf, original brass chimneyhood with Art Nouveau

relief decoration, cast-iron grate and tiled slips and front.

DINING ROOM: high wooden panelled dado, all dark wood;

substantial chimneypiece of similar material incorporating

squat Ionic columns and oval bevelled mirror.

WALLED GARDEN: substantial rubble walled garden at rear with

tooled cope. Large greenhouse with decorative ridge

brattishing and abutting boiler house with tall brick

chimney.

Statement of Special Interest

Newbold House was built by Colonel John Woodcock. He

inherited the estate of his uncle, John Little of Newbold

Pacey, Warwickshire. Colonel Woodcock was connected with

Forres through his wife's sister, Mrs Macleod of Dalvey.

Colonel Woodcock died in 1919 and his wife, Joanna Margaret,

in 1932, after which the house passed out of the family.

Though dated 1893 the house was probably constructed circa

1900 (it appears, with conservatory on 2nd ed OS 1905). In

1893 the architects Ross and Macbeth of Inverness advertised

for tenders for building Newbold House. However, this plan

does not appear to have materialised, for papers in the

Leask Collection (Leask and Davidson, solicitors who acted

for Col Woodcock, DBA A37/583) include a building contract

dated 1900 referring to plans, elevations, sections and other

detailed drawings and specifications... prepared by Peter

Fulton, Architect, Forres'.

Similar internal detailing at Dalvey (addition also by Peter

Fulton, 1897).

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