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Interior View from SW of Home Farm, byre showing former stable stalls
D 2567
Description Interior View from SW of Home Farm, byre showing former stable stalls
Date 26/8/1996
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number D 2567
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 747349
Scope and Content Interior of byre from south-west showing former stable stalls, Home Farm, Gordon Castle, Moray Gordon Castle lies on the road from Inverness to Aberdeen, beside the town of Fochabers. The Home Farm formed part of a massive programme of building between 1769 and 1783 when John Baxter, an Edinburgh architect, transformed the old castle into an elegant palace for the 4th Duke of Gordon. This shows the former stables and coach house, now used as a byre. The arched alcoves show where the stable stalls used to be. The interior of these buildings has been largely stripped out for modern farm use but the original Georgian elegance of the exterior, unusually elaborate for stables, remains. In 1842 the Reverend David Dewar, minister of the parish of Bellie, wrote of the magnificence of the newly reconstructed Gordon Castle which reflected the distinguished status of the Dukes of Richmond and Gordon. Although fire had destroyed much of the east wing in 1827, it had been fully restored by 1842. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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