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Latitude: 55.7955 / 55°47'43"N
Longitude: -3.3174 / 3°19'2"W
OS Eastings: 317498
OS Northings: 656591
OS Grid: NT174565
Mapcode National: GBR 518F.L9
Mapcode Global: WH6TB.0LJF
Plus Code: 9C7RQMWM+62
Entry Name: Newhall House
Listing Name: New Hall House
Listing Date: 14 September 1979
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 348057
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14644
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200348057
Location: Penicuik
County: Midlothian
Electoral Ward: Penicuik
Parish: Penicuik
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: House
c.1705. Trad. 2 storeys and garret. incorporating vaulted
1st storey from earlier castle. Harled. Double-ridged roof,
slated.
INTERIOR: Advocate's Room and Long Gallery. Original. Other rooms altered c.1785-95. 'Gothick' addition on S.
c.1785-95 to design of proprietor Robert Brown: Ashlar, with buttresses, pinnacles, pointed windows. Castellated additions to N. by David Bryce. Ashlar. Corbie-stepped. Gabled Tower.
Built for Sir David Forbes, lawyer, who acquired estate in 1703. His nephew, Duncan Forbes of Culloden (Inverness-shire) Lord Advocate and Lord President, used to visit it. Passed to Hays 1748 and to Hugh Brown, merchant, 1783.
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