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Latitude: 57.5717 / 57°34'18"N
Longitude: -3.612 / 3°36'43"W
OS Eastings: 303681
OS Northings: 854656
OS Grid: NJ036546
Mapcode National: GBR K8GQ.056
Mapcode Global: WH5HB.HY6C
Plus Code: 9C9RH9CQ+M5
Entry Name: Stables, Altyre House
Listing Name: Altyre, Stables
Listing Date: 26 January 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 349264
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15607
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200349264
Location: Rafford
County: Moray
Electoral Ward: Forres
Parish: Rafford
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: Stable
John Kinross, dated 1902. Single storey and loft and 2-storey
courtyard stable, carriage house and dwelling range; small
U-plan court at NE. Random rubble, contrasting finely tooled
and polished ashlar dressings. Round-headed ribbed and
hoodmoulded entrance arch in centre of W elevation, flanked
at left by 4-bay stable block and right by asymmetrical 3-bay
dwelling with gabled wallhead bipartite, the gabled with
decorative carved datestone.
Symmetrical 10-bay single storey S facing elevation with
gabled end bays raised to 2 storeys. Irregular gabled
2-storey house projects at NE with N entrance gable and
abutting small courtyard with E entrance flanked by square
tooled ashlar gatepiers with stepped pyramidal caps.
2-storey stair turret with bellcast conical slated roof
projects from N elevation.
Inside face of courtyard (linked by passage to NE court)
punctuated with doorways to stables and dwellings; also wide
entrances in E and S ranges to former carriage houses with
joggled lintels and now closed by wide windows. A profusion
of discreet carving decorates gabletted wallhead dormers,
often with stepped and moulded detailing at wallhead;
monogrammed plaques and coats of arms; roll moulding to
doorways and window openings. Double and single oak doors
with wrought-iron furniture; multi-pane glazing. Square
leaded louvred ridge cupola; moulded coped to ridge stacks;
stone slate roofs.
Stable range re-place former stables S of present cattle court
(on site of demolished Altyre House).
Monograms FJG and WGGC for Florence Josephine Garner and
William Gordon Gordon Cumming.
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