Dalvey House

Classical circa 1810. Classical mansion with extensive addition.

Peter Fulton, Forres, 1897. 2-storey over raised basement, 5-bay S facing house the centre 3 bays under open pediment, with 2-bay return elevations; 1897 extension continuous with W

return gable and of similar height with symmetrical 5-bay W

front forming overall L-plan mansion.

Tooled ashlar throughout with tooled and polished ashlar

dressings.

S FRONT: centre entrance reached by perron oversailing raised

basement. Corniced doorpiece with paired Roman Doric columns

supporting entablature decorated with bucrania and swagged

urns; radial fanlight; panelled door. Centre 1st floor

keystoned Venetian window with engaged reeded Ionic pilaster

jambs and scroll blocked cill. Moulded architraves to

flanking windows in bays 2 and 4, plain margins to

fenestration elsewhere. Outer bays delineated by giant

pilasters; 3 swagged urns surmount pediment linked at

wallhead to end dies by balustrade. 12-pane glazing; end

wallhead stacks; piended platform slate roof.

W WING: dated 1897. Symmetrical 5 bays to pedimented facade;

wide centre bay slightly advanced with angle pilasters

projecting 6-light window at basement and raised ground

floor. Keystoned attic window with dated segmental pediment;

2-pane glazing. Corniced stacks; piended platform slate roof. Substantial 2-storey porch at N with glazed 1st floor and

piended roof.

INTERIOR: raised ground floor of early house with centre

entrance hall and drawing room (R), dining room (L).

DRAWING ROOM: swagged frieze; similar decoration to corniced

overdoors, beaded panelled doors, window shutters and dados;

carved white painted chimneypiece with circa 1900 overmantel

and coloured marble slips to modern grate.

DINING ROOM: beaded panelled doors, dados and window

shutters; buffet recess flanked by reeded Corinthian

pilasters; swagged cornice with urns and bucrania; carved

chimneypiece with dark marble slips and original basket

grate.

STAIRHALL AND STAIRCASE: completely re-modelled in 1897,

though cornice survives.

SITTING-DINING ROOM IN 1897 WING: former nursery suite,

decorative plaster cornice, panelled doors and window

shutters; deep bay window, high dado in sitting area linked

to chimneypiece.