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View from North showing the expansive service court
D 10994
Description View from North showing the expansive service court
Date 12/5/1997
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number D 10994
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 778680
Scope and Content Service court, Mar Lodge, Aberdeenshire, from north This shows the entrance to the service court with the main block in the background. The service court buildings have a rustic awning (canopy) which is supported by logs on octagonal stone bases. Wooden gate piers are at each side of the entrance and support wooden gates. The three gables of the main block have decorative bargeboards and wooden inserts. The gablets allow more light into the servants' rooms and they also have ornately carved bargeboards. Deliveries of food and drink would have originally arrived in this courtyard by horse-drawn transport. The goods would be removed by servants and stored in the various buildings around the court which would have included a laundry and kitchen. The servants would also have entered the lodge by this route out of sight of the family and guests in the main house. 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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