Conservatory, Newbold House, St Leonard's Road, Forres

Peter Fulton, architect, Forres, dated 1893. Asymmetrical

gabled house with baronial details; 2-storeys with 3-bay W

entrance front and S facing garden elevation. Bullfaced

rubble, tooled and polished ashlar dressings. Substantial

conservatory abuts E gable.

Advanced and gabled centre bay at W with slightly projecting

square porch; segmental-headed entrance flanked by squat

engaged cluster columns with stiff leaft capitals;

crenellated wallhead with monogrammed plaque inset above

doorway; recessed panelled double leaf doors with wide side

lights.

S elevation with projecting ground floor rectangular window

at SW, also with crenellated wallhead; advanced SE gable

fronted by 2-storey projecting bowed windows with bowed

piended stone slab roof and blocked eaves cornice; gablets

break wallhead above 1st floor windows, some with attic

fenestration, others with decorative detailing, all with

carved stone finials. Mullioned and transomed windows with

single-pane plat glass glazing. Coped ridge and wallhead

stacks; slate roofs.

CONSERVATORY: large rectangular aisled conservatory abuts W

gable; projecting centre porch; interior supported by slender

cast-iron cluster columns, centre aisle roof raised,

decorative cast-iron angle braces. Linked to house by doorway

from dining room.

INTERIOR: spacious panelled entrance/stairhall with wooden

cantilivered staircase with panelled dado, turned balusters

and newel posts.

DRAWING ROOM: high white painted panelled dado, wooden

chimneypiece with paired reeded pilasters supporting

mantelshelf, original brass chimneyhood with Art Nouveau

relief decoration, cast-iron grate and tiled slips and front.

DINING ROOM: high wooden panelled dado, all dark wood;

substantial chimneypiece of similar material incorporating

squat Ionic columns and oval bevelled mirror.

WALLED GARDEN: substantial rubble walled garden at rear with

tooled cope. Large greenhouse with decorative ridge

brattishing and abutting boiler house with tall brick

chimney.