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House, built in the late 18th century, with 19th century walled garden (NO46SE0057) and stables, later used as a sanatorium and, from 1963-2011, as a young offenders institute. The house was built in the late 18th century for John Mill, a London merchant who acquired the estate of Fearn from the Carnegies of Southesk in 1766. His son John extended the house and improved the estate in the early - mid 19th century, with the addition to the house of pedimented flanking wings in 1799 as well as the addition of a stableblock to the South West and Gardener's House and Walled Garden to the North West. The house is a good example of a classical Adam-style house, a 5-bay classical villa, harled with raised painted margins, architraved openings, straight pilastered quoins, corniced eaves and piended grey slate roof. The principal elevation is largely unaltered, the pedimented centre with prominent pilastered detailing (including pilastered doorpiece at the centre under a decorative semi-circular fan light) which is repeated at various scales in the design of the building, such as the window mullions and internally in timber door architraves. The end pavilions are slightly advanced, also pedimented, with bowed cast iron balconies to the first floor. The pediments all have oculus windows. The windows are predominantly timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing. Internally the house has a decorative classical scheme: there has been some remodelling in the 20th century for later uses but many original features survive. Features include a Venetian window between ground and first floor now enclosed by a late 20th century glazed roof. The former offices and stables lie to the west of the house (NO46SE0060). Northeast of the walled garden garden is the Gardener's Cottage, a one-storey and attic cottage, on a rectangular plan. In 1914 Noranside became a sanatorium for the treatment of patients with tuberculosis. Alterations and additions were made to the property by Dundee architects Maclaren, Sons and Souter; the practice also designed the new wards, laundry, nurses accommodation and boiler house which were added to the northwest of the house. A mortuary was added to the east of the stables. Further alterations were made in the mid 20th century when the house became a young offenders institute, later an adult prison (HM Prison, Noranside), which closed in 2011, and which comprised four wings (A-D) with independent living units (Alba and Cameron Houses). A standing building survey of the house and stable blocks/farmstead and photographic survey of the Gardener's Cottage and walled garden were carried out by Rathmell Archaeology in 2015 ahead of proposed development. This recorded a number of surviving original features including decorative plasterwork and timber features.
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