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Remains of the 17th to 19th century designed landscape. Glen Tanar House was originally a little Scottish cottage, comprising two rooms on ground floor and two attics in roof. The Earl of Southesk then erected a wing containing dining room drawing room and some bedrooms. A Mr Brooks took ownership and these were all made into bedrooms, and in six weeks Mr Truefitt designed, and had three large reception rooms built, 30 feet by 22 feet each. As time was an object, these rooms were erected of timber, and harled outside but they have since had an outer casing of granite. Another large wing was built, consisting of servants' hall, bedrooms, new kitchen department, and the old part of the building has been altered and added to, to make it agree with the new work including a large verandah and porch combined in rustic work, and other bits of rustic work about the building. Internally the principal rooms had pine dados and panelled ceilings, and in all the bedrooms ornamental glass of quaint design, every pattern different, and designed by the architect. Sitting and bedrooms are papered with tinted-glazed plain papers, of quiet tints, they do not therefore interfere at all with the pictures, engravings, water-colour drawings etc, with which the whole of the walls throughout the house are well covered. The bedrooms are purposely all small, but there are plenty of them. One idea was to keep the house as small in appearance as possible. Wash-stands and dressing-tables, looking-glasses, and writing tables are all designed purposely, and mostly made fixtures. [Aberdeen Journal/Builder 19 September 1874 p791-792]
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