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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 710607
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/710607
NT07SE 25.00 06149 71630.
NT07SE 25.01 Centred NT 0630 7144 Walled Garden
NT07SE 25.02 NT 0623 7149 Dovecot
NT07SE 25.03 NT 06141 71675 Offices/Stables
'No doubt Middleton Hall occupies the site of an earlier building, mentioned in 1555'?
A MacDonald 1941.
Middleton Hall was built 1710, but was largely reconstructed 1898. The main body of the house remains, its centre bays advanced and raised on both fronts to carry a confortable segmental pediment. Quardrant wings were added in c.1800, the linking sections were originally only one storey high, but these were raised in 1898.
The assembley hall, now a conference centre, has an original corner chimneypiece of c.1710 with carved ogee-section frieze, in timber, but the 'Adam' ceiling is spurious.
The stable court was also added in 1898 and it has since been adapted as a bedroom block for conference use (1962).
The hall was built for the Reverend G Barclay who lived there after his retirement in 1710 and passed to the the Earl of Buchan in 1714.
SDD 1964; C McWilliam 1978.
