Aberdeenshire HER - NJ96SW0021 - ABERDOUR HOUSE

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Period Details

PeriodOrderProbabilityRadiocarbon DatesDate BuiltDate of DestructionDate of Loss
Post-Medieval (from 1560 AD) A100    
18th Century B100    

Period Notes

Period Notes Original house dated 1740; current house designed c.1870. Mansion built on earlier site which had been purchased in 1630 by Alexander Forbes of Pitsligo. Early in the 17thC the barony of Aberdour belonged to a branch of the Cheyne family, who had bought it in 1571 from Lord Borthwick. Steading dated 1740.

Architect Details

Architect Details 1870 rebuild designed by James Duncan. James Duncan was born in 1828, the son of George Duncan, a Turriff mason. Nothing is known of his professional training, but he commenced practice in Turriff by at least 1862 when he designed Cuminestown School. He quickly acquired a well-deserved reputation for the planning and construction of farm steadings and had more than forty estates, great and small, as clients. In 1887 his son William Liddle Duncan, born 1870, became an apprentice; he was taken into partnership in 1897. He was admitted LRIBA in the mass intake of 20 July 1911, his proposers including Arthur Clyne and Arthur Hay Livingstone Mackinnon. James Duncan died on 6 March 1907 and was buried in St Congan's Churchyard. His wife, Ellen Liddle, died on 24 November 1917 aged 79. Following his father's death William Liddle Duncan continued the practice under his own name.