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Site of a mansion house depicted on historic OS maps. Shown as an essentially rectangular house on the 1st edition, it had been significantly enlarged by the time of the 2nd edition. The house was the home of the Pirie family who owned the Stoneywood Paper Mills. In 1913 it was purchased by the North of Scotland College of Agriculture, and was opened as the Craibstone School of Rural Domestic Economy in 1920. It provided a training college for women who wanted to work on the land, the training including dairying, poultry and bee keeping and farm accounts. The mansion was destroyed by fire in January 1953, although the college continued to use the estate for research and experimental research. The school closed in 1968. See NJ81SE0029 for walled garden and designed landscape.
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
Aberdeen City
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NJ81SE0209 - CRAIBSTONE HOUSE