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Newhall House

Country House (18th Century)

Site Name Newhall House

Classification Country House (18th Century)

Canmore ID 107841

Site Number NH66NE 69

NGR NH 69839 65568

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Resolis
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Ross And Cromarty
  • Former County Ross And Cromarty

Archaeology Notes

NH66NE 69 NH 69839 65568

See

NH76NW 111 NH 70194 65236 for gate piers and gates

Architecture Notes

Built after 1788.

OWNER: Major C J Shaw-Mackenzie

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Newhall - map showing perspective view of an early 18th c house.

Newhall House is an A listed building and was built after 1788. It was built for Donald Mackenzie with architect James Smith of Inverness (1805-7). A staircase to the rear incorporates an earlier house started in 1725 for Alexander Urquhart, which passed onto the Gordon family shortly after completion. The garden has a sundial of around 1700 as well as a number of Italian wellheads of a possible 16th century date. The original house was situated by the present gates. The possible remains of a designed landscape to the S side of the house is visible on an aerial photograph of 1954, but not on aerial photographs of 1969 or 1973. The house was researched as part of an archaeological desktop survey for the Resolis Water Mains Renewal Project.

S Farrell 2003

Sponsor: Halcrow Group Ltd on behalf of Scottish Water

Activities

Photographic Survey (1956)

Photographic survey of Newhall House, Ross and Cromarty, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1956.

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