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Remains of Newton House, built in 1793 with additions and alterations in 1852, but reduced to a shell by fire damage in 1992. It is also the site of a manor named 'Newton of Ardgy'. It is a tall 2-storey and attic house over a raised basement. There is a projecting wing set back at the east, with a raised ground floor canted oriel that has a corbelled base decorated with masks and with a corbelled stone roof. Two rear wings project to forma 3-storey U-plan service court. It is harled, with tooled and polished ashlar margins and dressings. There are five bays in the south facing, with an advanced and gabled centre bay that has an 1852 porch approached by a flight of steps oversailing a raised basement. The initial house is plain, but there are embellishments from the 1852 work, particularly to the upper storey. It has a pilastered and corniced entrance, with florid Jacobean detailing. There are lunette and banded obelisk finials, with a tall canted first floor window above with plain chamfered margins to the ground and first floor windows. It is mainly 4-pane glazing used throughout. There are corbelled angle bartizans with conical bellcast fishscale slated roofs, of which only one now survives, decorative water spouts and end batteries of coped stacks with diamond flues and crowstepped gabled. The dormers from 1852 have carved and monogrammed pediments. A sun porch from circa 1975 is at the W of the house. The interior had been remodelled by Mackenzie in 1852. The entrance hall has an arcaded and columned screen, rounded-headed niches and deep mouldings. A curved 1793 cantilevered staircase rises full-height, with plain balusters and moulded risers. The drawing room has an 1852 marble chimneypiece, a ceiling cornice and doorway flanked by glazed wall cupboards, linking it to the back sitting room. The dining room has a black marble chimneypiece, a simple panelled dado and a moulded ceiling cornice. There is some evidence of remodelling of the former first floor drawing-room area, but 18th century fielded panelled doors also survive in the first floor. At the main entrance, there is a pair of plain square ashlar gatepiers, with a pulvinated string course, a moulded cornice, and ball finials. The walled garden (NJ16SE0130) dates to circa 1800 and extends to the north of the house, and is constructed with coped rubble walls, with a dovecot (NJ16SE0004) at the southeast corner. Newton House built by George Forteath in 1793, it passed to his nephew Alexander Williamson (who took the name of Forteath) in 1815. Alexander Forteath was factor for the Trustees of the Earl of Fife's estates and took an active role in the public life of Moray. The property remained in the Forteath family until the 1930s. The former stables and coach-house (NJ16SE0127) and the west lodge (NJ16SE0123 and NJ16SE0177) are to the southwest of Newton House.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
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NJ16SE0020 - NEWTON HOUSE