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House and summer house, designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie in 1905 for local showman and magician Dr Walford Bodie (hypnotist, ventriloquist and magician, real name Samuel Murphy Bodie, sometime acquaintance of Harry Houdini). Interesting single and 2-storey, 5- bay, mock half-timbered house set-back from street frontage with a fine little-altered interior and located at heart of Macduff. Timber verandah, unusual glazing pattern to leaded diamond-paned casement windows set in timber frames, and jettied, mock half-timbered gableheads. Built of rubble with concrete render inset with regularly-sized river pebbles, with pink Turriff sand render over granite at rear. Timber margins, transoms and mullions. Summerhouse: rustic timber summerhouse retaining leaded glazing with decorative coloured glazing in shaped light and plain bargeboarding. Interior retains bench seats, hessian and decorated cloth wall coverings and makers plate stamped 'Caesar'.
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