Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

HADDO HOUSELB9460

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
11/09/1984
Local Authority
Aberdeenshire
Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Parish
Forgue
NGR
NJ 61929 46222
Coordinates
361929, 846222

Description

Ruin. Central part severe rubble-built 3-storey, 3-

window, roofless; 2-storey Italianate S. addition, T-plan

harled with granite margins, broad-eaved low-pitched roof,

eaves belt course. Porte-cochere entrance tower on W.

with dome on pendentives, semi-circular arches with

continuous architraves, group of 3 round-arched windows

above each side and low pyramid roof with wide consoled

eaves; wooden conservatory in angle. 3-window bow on E.

gable. Finely composed and distinctively detailed. circa

1836. Office block on N. side of original house probably

of about same date, rubble-built twin curved gables with

cruciform chimneys.

Statement of Special Interest

Across the Banffshire border an oval walled garden with

a circular doocot now also derelict, and a segmentally

arched bridge across the Keithny Burn.

References

Bibliography

O.S.A. v. 12 p. 287

N.S.A. v. 12 p. 601 ('excellent mansion house')

3.S.A. p. 607 ('now a ruin')

The authorship of this house is a difficult question. In

the A.P.S.D. and in obituaries both Smith and Simpson

are credited with work at Haddo. Simpson was certainly

the architect for work at Haddo (Methlick) in 1822. But

unsigned plans and other work for the Aberdeen family at

the time suggest that the Smiths did the Kitchen court

there c. 1843. The style of this house is close to

Simpson (cf. Linton and Thainston) but their work is

sometimes close in style in the 1830s.

About Listed Buildings

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