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View from South East showing the lodge in its setting
D 10987
Description View from South East showing the lodge in its setting
Date 12/5/1997
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number D 10987
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 778677
Scope and Content Mar Lodge, Aberdeenshire, from south-east This shows the south front of the two-storeyed and attic, seven-bayed main block with the four-bayed wing on the left and the gabled front of the five-bayed wing on the right. Both these wings are at obtuse angles to the main block. The building is constructed from coursed rock-faced granite and has ornately carved bargeboards around the gables and gablets which have central finials and decorative timber inserts. The entrance porch also has a central finial and is supported on rustic columns. The main entertaining rooms were located on the ground floor with family bedrooms on the first floor and servants' bedrooms in the attic. The lodge originally had over 50 servants, and enough bedrooms for 25 guests, who would enjoy shooting red deer on the estate. William Duff of Dipple who became the 1st Earl of Fife in 1759 built the original Mar Lodge (or Dalmore House) in 1750. The 6th Earl was created the 1st Duke of Fife when he married Princess Louise, who was a daughter of King Edward VII. When Mar Lodge was destroyed by fire in 1895, Alexander Marshall Mackenzie (1848-1933) designed a new lodge and Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone later in the same year. The duke and duchess used the house mainly as a sporting lodge and an autumn home. The building had another serious fire in 1991 but was subsequently restored. The 29,380-hectare estate had several owners from 1959 until 1995 when The National Trust for Scotland bought it, with the help of a £10 million lottery grant. The lodge has been divided into five self-catering holiday apartments which can be rented by the public. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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