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Torwood Cottage
Villa (19th Century)
Site Name Torwood Cottage
Classification Villa (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Torwood House
Canmore ID 186476
Site Number NO67SW 50
NGR NO 61183 71526
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/186476
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fettercairn
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO67SW 50 6120 7155
'Torwood Cottage' is depicted on the OS 6" 1st Edition map (Kincardineshire, sheet XXIII, 1868).
Information from RCAHMS (HMLB), June 2001.
NO67SW 50.00 NO 61183 71526 Torwood Cottage
NO67SW 50.01 NO 61198 71558 Outbuildings
Symmetrical neo-classical villa. Single storey and basement with fine polished grey sandstone ashlar entrance (S) elevation and red sandstone rubble rear elevations; double bow-ended plan, wide, 3-bay S front with colonnaded bowed entrance portico, narrow on plan (single apartment depth); later gabled rear wing of stugged red sandstone rubble. Roofless, with rear and end walls partially collapsed, interior mostly lost (1992).
A very fine example of revived Greek architecture, built towards the end of the first Greek Revival movement which began in Scotland with the building of the Glasgow Courthouse by William Stark in c 1807-14. Ruined at the time of listing; proposals to restore and extend under discusion (1992). (Historic Scotland)
Photographic Survey (1956)
Photographic survey by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1956.
