Watch House, Newton Church, Newton Church Road, Newton Village is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 March 2001. Church.
Watch House, Newton Church, Newton Church Road, Newton Village
- WRENN ID
- still-chimney-thunder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 March 2001
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Circa 1828. Single-storey rectangular watch house. Rock faced and droved random sandstone with projecting polished margins, ashlar skews and chimney quoins. Heavy cut stone ridging. Modern re-pointing to each elevation.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: gable end with projecting margined side quoins to right, abutting Kirkyard entrance pier to left; central entrance doorway with stop chamfered projecting margins, replacement plank door.
S ELEVATION: integral part of the boundary wall; adjoining ashlar entrance pier to right.
W ELEVATION: plain gable end, heavy plain skews; gablehead chimney stack: prominent ashlar drip course, projecting ashlar strip quoins with rendered in-fill to each elevation, shaped ashlar neck cope, no cans.
N ELEVATION: low wall; blind central window with projecting ashlar margins, top lintel abutting roofline; projecting margins to side quoins.
No original glazing remaining. Steeply pitched, piended graded slate roof, skews rising high above roof level.
INTERIOR: not seen, 2000.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATE PIERS: random rubble walls with slab coping surmounting. Pairs of square ashlar gatepiers in S wall and W wall: raised bead course below stepped overhanging plinths, square cope with pyramid cap surmounting; replacement timber gates to both entrances.
Detailed Attributes
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