Newton Of Condie
Country House (Period Unassigned), Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Newton Of Condie
Classification Country House (Period Unassigned), Tower House (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Laird's House
Canmore ID 26597
Site Number NO01NE 49
NGR NO 07570 18176
NGR Description Centred on NO 07570 18176
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/26597
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Forgandenny
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO01NE 49.00 07570 18176
NO01NE 49.01 NO 0764 1809 Condie Cottage, Building and Walled Garden
NO01NE 49.02 NO 07685 17975 Dovecot
Large ruined mansion of several dates, burnt 1866. The original building is a tower-house of rectangular plan probably dating from about the third quarter of the 16th century, the E side of which is incorporated into the E wall of the whole building. This tower-house contained a turnpike stair in the NW corner, but about the end of the 16th century a square tower containing a larger turnpike stair and an entrance doorway was added to the SW corner. In the late 17th- or early 18th-century, a large extension was made in the form of an L-shaped building, attached to the W side of the tower-house and extending to the W ans S. Finally in about 1830 these buildings were surrounded by additions to the SE and SW and by the er ection of a mansion on the N. The latter is built parallel to the N walls of the earlier structures and is linked to them at the E and W sides.
T Hunter 1883.
NMRS REFERENCE
Architect: David Roberts: decoration, before 1818 'engaged painting imitations of woods & marbles in Condie, a new mansion upon the Earn'. (Life of David Roberts R.A. by James Ballantine, MDCCCIxvi, p.11).
Destroyed by fire 13th March 1866. Ruins remain.