Aberdeenshire HER - NJ93NE0019 - DUDWICK HOUSE

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Period Details


Period Notes

Period Notes Estate purchased by General James King, Lord Eythin in 1636; drawing taken in 1851 is reproduced in the 1887 edition of 'Castles of Aberdeenshire'; became the farmhouse for Mains of Dudwick in 1786 until 1865 when it was pulled down; small portion of the N & W walls remained in 1868; present farmhouse built from remains of old c.1860s.

Architect Details

Architect Details George Marr, architect c.1860s. George Marr began practice as an architect and civil engineer at Campbell of Udny from 1855, concentrating almost exclusively on school and farm work. The practice moved to Ellon in the mid-1860s and became G & G Marr in 1872. In the summer of 1878, Marr was taken into partnership by the Aberdeen architect and civil engineer George Gordon Jenkins. Throughout their early careers, the work of Jenkins & Marr was of a simple and strictly practical nature, but with Mannofield Church (1882), for which an experienced assistant was probably brought into the practice, it moved to a rather higher plane. In the earlier 1880s Jenkins & Marr formed a loose partnership with William Davidson of Ellon, which lasted at least until the late 1890s. Marr died intestate on 3 October 1899. He does not appear to have been married. In Marr's obituary it is reported that he had a 'special acquaintance with designing papermills'.