Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 561009
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/561009
Between 1817 and 1820 the architect Sir Robert Smirke made considerable alterations to the eighteenth-century house of Newton Don, for which Robert Adam had prepared the original plans. The work was carried out for Sir Alexander Don, owner of the estate from 1815.
The three-storeyed house was designed in a neoclassical style, with few external decorations or embellishments.
The house, which overlooks the Eden Water, stands in an early nineteenth-century designed landscape, which includes large swathes of lawn, and areas of planned woodland.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
