Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
Detached multiple-bay two-storey stable block, built or remodeled c. 1860, having a central single-bay three-storey tower (on square-plan) flanked to either side (north and south) by gable-fronted single-bay two-storey sections with crow-stepped parapets. Incorporating fabric of earlier buildings. Pitched slate roofs with cut limestone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Battlemented parapet to tower having Irish crenellations over. Clockface to tower at third stage/third storey level. Snecked squared limestone rubble walls, partially repointed, with pointed arch sandstone voussoirs/relieving arches over openings to central block. Tripartite and paired square-headed window openings to central block having dressed limestone surrounds, dressed limestone mullions and metal latticed casement windows. Square-headed window openings elsewhere with metal latticed casement windows. Square-headed openings with timber louvered vents to the west face. Staged Tudor-pointed carriage arch to tower with dressed limestone surrounds, metal double-leaf gates and with pointed arch sandstone voussoirs over. Shouldered square-headed doorways with dressed limestone surrounds, sandstone voussoirs/relieving arches over, and with battened timber doors. Three-bay single-storey coach house attached to the southeast corner having three segmental-headed carriage arches with dressed limestone surrounds and timber double-doors. Located to rear of Castle Forbes, to the west of the main house/castle, and to the northwest of Newtown-Forbes.
This official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.