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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 668561

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/668561

NJ54SE 7.00 57856 41565

NJ54SE 7.01 58315 41487 Dovecot

NJ54SE 7.02 5756 4144 Home Farm

NJ54SE 7.03 5721 4198 North Lodge

NJ54SE 7.04 5729 4153 Moss of Lessendrum

NJ54SE 7.05 5772 4165 (new and present) Lessendrum House

NJ54SE 7.06 5803 4158 Baron's Gate

NJ54SE 7.07 5829 4221 East Lodge

(NJ 5785 4155) Lessendrum (NR)

OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1928)

Lessendrum: a mansion which dates as far back as 1470 but was enlarged in 1816 and in 1836.

Name Book 1871.

Lessendurm is now a ruin, although the walls still stand to roof-level.

Visited by OS (EGC) 2 October 1961.

The roofless ruin of Lessendrum House stands within extensive, heavily-wooded grounds. The building comprises an earlier house, probably dating from the 17th century, to which additions were made in 1837 by Archibald Simpson. The earlier house, a two-storey structure, was L-shaped on plan and provided a core for the later additions made to the NW side.

Architectural features of 17th century date include the fireplace surrounds in the NW wing of the earlier house and a roll-moulding in re-use in the NW wall. The later house was burnt out about 1921.

Visited by RCAHMS (IS) 9 November 1983.

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