Meldrum House, South Gateway
Gate(S) (19th Century) (1851), Gate Pier(S) (19th Century) (1851)
Site Name Meldrum House, South Gateway
Classification Gate(S) (19th Century) (1851), Gate Pier(S) (19th Century) (1851)
Alternative Name(s) Meldrum House Hotel
Canmore ID 252810
Site Number NJ82NW 13.08
NGR NJ 81115 28200
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/252810
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Meldrum
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Many good structures in policies, including a pair of circular, 17th-century garden houses originally entered from the first floor off a little wooden bridge. Outer gate and stable and coach house of 1628 (altered ?1777) consists of a U-plan
into which coach house inserted in the late 18th century; doocot in upper floor; fine royal arms on north-west face. Tunnel-vaulted ground floor, bosses on vault. South Lodge, 1851, restored 1982, Marion Fraser (also known as Chain
Lodge). Tudor, single-storey dark granite with fancy bargeboards and lattice glazing; roofline pierced by four diagonal chimneys and spiky finials. South gates, 1851 'presumably', restored 1986. Tudor-Jacobean, harled with dark granite
dressings, at middle a four-centred arch with keystone and octagonal piers with 'double globule' finials; footgates in flanking screen walls. Farm and semicircular kennels wing are excellent.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
Photographic Survey (March 1954)
Photographs of Meldrum House and buildings in Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, by the National Buildings Record Scottish Council in March 1954.
Photographic Survey (September 1960)
Photographs of Meldrum House, Aberdeenshire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in September 1960.
