Blyth Hall, Blyth Street, Newport-On-Tay

Blyth Hall is a hall dating to 1877, constructed with Scots Baronial detailing. A flagpole was added in 1878, alongside a porch extension designed by J Weekes Jun in 1913, and later, modern flanking extensions. The exterior is built of squared and snecked sandstone rubble, rock-faced on the sides, with ashlar dressings, while the porch is of dry dash and blockwork. It features a moulded cornice, crowsteps, two-stage coped and battered buttresses, corbels, a pointed-arch door, a hoodmould, moulded stone transoms and mullions, and stop-chamfered arrises.

The west (principal) elevation is a tall three-bay design with a crowstepped gable flanked by narrow, conical-roofed round towers. A full-width, flat-roofed porch projects at ground level, with steps leading to a two-leaf, part-glazed door at the centre, beneath a deeply mutuled cornice. Slightly recessed flanking bays each contain three small windows. The recessed face of the original building incorporates a corbelled cill and a six-part transomed window with a hoodmould, featuring a moulded panel inscribed with the letter ‘B’. A finialled, two-stage tower rises from the outer left angle, with a blind gunloop and a narrow window to the ground floor, and a hoodmoulded window above featuring flanking moulded panels each bearing blind shields. The outer right angle has a slightly lower tower, corbelled from a square first stage, with three narrow windows.

The north elevation is a six-bay design with dividing buttresses and a window in each bay, except for the one to the right of centre, which has a door. The south elevation largely mirrors the west elevation, but includes a small bipartite window to the outer left bay, below a short angled crowstep adjoining the tower.

The windows have three- and four-pane lying pattern glazing within top-opening metal frames. The roof is covered in grey slates with a fishscale pattern, particularly on the towers. Ashlar-coped skews have moulded skewputts. Decorative cast-iron downpipes, square section gutters, rainwater hoppers, and finials are also present.

The interior of the porch includes modern steps leading to the original deeply moulded, pointed-arch, hoodmoulded ashlar doorcase, featuring carved head label-stops. The hall itself displays classical plasterwork mouldings, including medallions, bellflower swags, and foliate fronds above the windowheads and a niche containing a marble bust of ‘Mrs Isabella Blyth Martin’, accompanied by an inscribed marble tablet.

The flagpole’s stepped square concrete base is inscribed "The Gift of W Y BLYTH MARTIN 1878", rising to a moulded stone pedestal and a pitch pine pole surmounted by a weathervane.