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Site of large house dating from 1789, or earlier, demolished before July 1971. The house was on an L-plan, mainly two storeyed, with hipped slated roof. Constructed of rubble masonry laid to approximate courses, with dressed quoins and margins to openings. The principal south facade comprised a five-window fenestration symmetrically disposed about an entrance doorway. The doorway was contained within a porch supported on four columns of the Roman Doric order with entablature. The frieze was enriched with fluted triglyphs. The advanced wings at each side of main rectangular block incorporated bay windows rising through both floors, and dating from the middle of the 19th Century. They were constructed in ashlar masonry and small panels carved in relief were situated above each ground floor window. The East panel contained the initials 'RG' and 'EE' flanking a cartouche bearing the date 1856, while the West panel contained an armorial with the initials 'LG' and 'AG'. The armorial comprised a shield charged with three eastern crowns, two over one, a crest of a mountain in flames, and the motto 'Stand Firm', the arms of the Grants of Logie. The northeast wing was constructed in random rubble masonry with traces of a boulder base course on the east wall. The bow-front incorporated two blocked ground floor openings on the northeast side and above the first floor window was a stone incised with the initials 'APC' and 'HG' and the date 1789. At ground floor level within the re-entrant angle on the south wall was a much-weathered stone which appeared to contain vestiges of carvings in relief. The interior was gutted by fire in the mid 20th Century (before 1971).
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NJ05NW0165 - FORRES HOUSE