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Remains of a mansion house built on the site of an earlier building, which lies within an extensive designed landscape (NO88NE0104). An early 17th Century House of Ury was demolished in the mid 19th Century to make way for the present mansion. The 17th century house was an L-plan house of three storeys, subsequently converted to the Z-plan by the addition of two round towers at two of the diagonally opposite angles, and it was said to have been vaulted throughout. The later mansion was built in 1855 to the design of John Baird, Glasgow, with a wing added in 1884. Of ashlar masonry with sculptured detailing in revived English Tudor/Jacobean style with off-centre, tall, square entrance tower with porte-cochere. Windows mostly hood moulded, some canted/oriel, many mullioned. Present house now a ruin, having been abandoned in 1945 and the roof having been removed in the 1950s. The south elevation of the former coach house to the north (NO88NE0165) faces the house and reflects the style of the porte cochere and pedimented gable heads. The first known owners of the lands of Ury were the Frasers, but the estate later passed to Marischals, and in 1415 to Lord Errol. A Level 2 Standing Building Survey was carried out between October 2014 and June 2016 by Cameron Archaeology prior to proposed alterations and reinstatement. A watching brief was also carried out by Cameron Archaeology at the same time during the clearance of areas on the south and west side of Ury House. The ground was not scraped down to natural subsoil, but levelled for the storage of materials. A watching brief was carried out GUARD Archaeology in June 2021 on access route groundworks on the south and west sides of the house. Northwest of the house the trenching revealed remains of a curvilinear wall, comprising two parallel rows of stone, one made of faced sandstone blocks. This appears to be a wall shown on the 1st and 2nd edition map, part of which, adjacent to the house, remains standing.
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