Survey Data
Reg No
13303004
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Worker's house
In Use As
Outbuilding
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
209766, 280255
Date Recorded
08/08/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Group of single-storey outbuildings and estate worker's house associated with Castle Forbes, built c. 1820. Arranged around courtyard with adjoining segmental-arched entrance gate to the southwest. Pitched slate roofs with cast-iron rainwater goods. Stepped cut limestone bellcote to the southwest gable of range to the west. Roughly dressed limestone walls with red brick construction in places. Square-headed window openings with replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door openings with replacement glazed timber doors. Segmental-arched entrance gate with cut limestone block-and-start surround and voussoirs to arch and with double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Rubble limestone boundary wall (with a number of loopholes), to the north, adjoining stable block (13303003) to the east. Rubble limestone boundary wall running south to walled garden (13303007). Located to the northwest of Castle Forbes and to the northwest of Newtown-Forbes.
Appraisal
This simple complex of outbuildings and the probable former estate worker’s house form an integral part of the Castle Forbes complex. The fine cut stone bellcote and the simple but well-constructed carriage arch help to add an architectural quality to these otherwise utilitarian structures. The simple limestone boundary walls to the northwest and to the south complete the setting and adds to this composition. The form of these boundary walls suggests that they may date from an earlier period/phase at Castle Forbes.