Falconer Museum, Tolbooth Street, Forres is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Museum. 3 related planning applications.
Falconer Museum, Tolbooth Street, Forres
- WRENN ID
- stark-minaret-bramble
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1971
- Type
- Museum
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
A and W Reid, 1868-70. Italian Renaissance. 2 storeys, 3-bay
entrance to N, 6-bay elevation to Tolbooth Street. Finely
stugged ashlar with polished ashlar dressings, rubble flanks
to S and E. Vitruvian scroll between ground and 1st floors,
rosettes in frieze, cornice, die parapet with terminal
finials to both facades.
N FACADE: shallow advanced centre bay with paved Roman Doric
columned portico; pilastered and shafted round-arched
tripartite above, with broad outer pilaster strips supporting
frieze inscribed "Falconer Museum" and pediment enclosing
portrait bust and crowning anthemion. Outer bays with round-
arched pilastered windows in each floor, shell decoration and portrait-mask keystone at ground, 1st floor windows recessed
in panels.
W ELEVATION: similar details, 2 centre bays advanced with
panelled parapet; all 1st floor windows bipartite. Piended
slate roof.
Detailed Attributes
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