Feature: NJ96SW0021 - ABERDOUR HOUSE
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Austere 3-storey, 7-bay mansion, dated 1740, linked by curved single storey quadrants to rear. Two-storey, 3-bay wings forming rear U-plan court. South facing front with slightly advanced, gabled and finialled centre bay with pedimented entrance masked by mid 19th century, flat roofed porch. Corniced first floor window above with decorative carved mock keystone to lintel. Octagonal blind oculus in gablet and crow-stepped gables. The house is approached from the north and separated from former stables (dated 1795) and steading at west by a rubble wall with simple square gatepiers flanking entrance. Datestone at rear of house, sited near wallhead stack initialled SF and MC. Mansion built on earlier site which had been purchased in 1630 by Alexander Forbes of Pitsligo. Early in the 17th century the barony of Aberdour belonged to a branch of the Cheyne family, who had bought it in 1571 from Lord Borthwick. There is a walled garden to the south-east of the house (NJ96SW0092).