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Mansion house, possibly built on site of earlier manor, now in multiple occupancy accommodation. The present house was formerly known as New House of Glack, built in 1876 to a design by James Matthews for J. Mackenzie. It is a rather municipal baronial mansion house, of 3-storey and attic or 4-storey, partly of ashlar construction, partly squared granite rubble, with the remainder harled. There is an oriel window over a south elevation door, a corbel course at the top of the second floor, corbiesteps and a central, battlemented tower with turrets. There are some good Elizabethan ceilings and a late 18th Century chimney piece from the old house. In the late 19th century it was acquired by Aberdeen's Royal Cornhill Asylum (in 1888) and became the County Lunatic Asylum (the Old House of Glack - NJ72NW0145 becoming the nurses home). Craigshannoch House was built in the estate (NJ72NW0101) southwest of the walled garden in the 1930s as a male patients' villa. During the war the asylum was converted to a hospital for the wounded. It closed as a hospital in 1995. The house sits within a designated landscape (NJ72NW0101). Today it has again been converted, along with the other buildings of the policies, to residential houses and flats.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)