Newton House

The building is a tall, two-story and attic house with a raised basement (appearing as a three-story structure from the rear), built in 1793 and extensively altered in 1852. It is arranged in a U-plan with five bays facing south. The exterior is largely harled, with tooled and polished ashlar margins and dressings. It presents as a plain late 18th-century house with embellishments added in 1852, particularly to the upper story. A projecting, gabled central bay, dated 1852, features a porch approached by oversailing steps. The porch has pilastered and corniced detailing, florid Jacobean motifs, a lunette, banded obelisk finials, and a tall, canted first-floor window above. Plain chamfered margins define the ground and first-floor windows. Dormers have carved and monogrammed pediments. Corbelled angle bartizans are topped with conical, bellcast fishscale slated roofs. Moulded corbels and string courses run along the facade, and decorative water spouts are present. An eastern wing is set back, featuring a raised ground floor canted oriel with a corbelled base decorated with masks and a corbelled stone roof. Two rear wings project to form a U-plan service court. Most windows have four panes of glass. Crowstepped gables, end stacks with diamond flues, and slate roofs complete the exterior. A small sun porch, dating from circa 1975, is located at the west side of the house.

The interior entrance hall was remodelled in 1852 by Thomas Mackenzie, with an arcaded and columned screen, rounded-headed niches and deep mouldings. A curved staircase, dating from 1793, rises the full height of the hall and has plain balusters and moulded risers. The drawing room, also by Mackenzie in 1852, has a marble chimneypiece, a ceiling cornice, and doorway, flanked by glazed wall cupboards, connecting it to a back sitting room. A black marble chimneypiece and a simple panelled dado with a moulded ceiling cornice are features of the dining room. Evidence of remodelling exists on the first floor, particularly in the former drawing-room area, though some 18th-century fielded panelled doors remain.

The walled garden, dating from circa 1800, extends to the north of the house and is enclosed by coped rubble walls. At the main entrance, a pair of plain square ashlar gatepiers have a pulvinated string course, moulded cornice, and ball finials.