Publication Account
Date 2008
Event ID 1019596
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019596
This fine baronial mansion as commissioned by the mill owner, Adam Lees Cochrane of Netherdale Mill, and was built on high ground, overlooking his mill in the valley to the northeast and Abbotsford to the south. William Hay, later of Hay and Henderson, designed the red sandstone house in 1868-9 with an enthusiastic approach to style, incorporating Gothic, French and Scottish details. Although now approached through a housing estate, it retains its landscape setting to the east and south.
The very fine Mackenzie and Moncur conservatory appears to be contemporary with the house and remains largely unaltered. H O Tarbolton made minor alterations to the house between 1905-11.
The principal rooms and stair hall retain many of their original features but the high quality coloured glass in the entrance hall screen and stair window must have been installed by H O Tarbolton in the early twentieth century.
Information from ‘The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Commissioners’ Field Meeting 2008'.
