Estate Bridge, Muckle Burn, Dalvey House

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 26/01/1971 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Parish Dyke And Moy NGR NJ 00498 58558 Coordinates 300498, 858558 — Early 19th century with later 19th century alterations. Late 19th century, probably W L Carruthers, architect, Inverness. Single storey, SE facing pair cottages. Harled. Slightly hump-back twin arched rubble bridge; tooled ashlar segmental arch rings springing from tooled ashlar abutments; Doorways in bays 2 and 5 under tall multi-pane glazed lights rising through wallhead as weatherboarded segmental-headed triangular cutwaters; 3 drainage vents each side and single blind oculus in centre spandrels. Later 19th century dormers. Flanking windows with multi-pane casements. Centre coped ridge stack; piended stone slate roof; red pottery apex crenellated cope; crenellated end piers rising from circa 1830 plinths. finials. Deep lean-to loggias with piended slate roofs abut NE and SW Approximate span; 30' each arch. gables, each supported by sturdy wooden pilasters. Projecting wing at rear. — 1827 drawing of Dalvey House depicts similar bridge in foreground; present bridge may be the early 19th century original or a re-build after flood damage August 1829. By 1798 there was a 'stout wooden bridge' over the Muckle Burn at Dalvey, carrying the former road to Forres from Dyke, now the Dalvey House driveway.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.