Detail of stables from courtyard. Digital image of AB 4959

Description Detail of stables from courtyard. Digital image of AB 4959

Date 6/1963

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 742643

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AB 4959

Scope and Content West wing, Round Square, Aden House, Aberdeenshire From the 1750s to 1937 the Russell family built up the estate of Aden to a 4,000 hectare mix of private policies, farmland and woodland. Since 1980, 92 hectares of the estate has been managed by the local council as a country park and the stables, which date from 1800, have been renovated and turned into a museum of agriculture. This is the west wing of the round square viewed from the south-west. The two-storeyed, curved block is built of harled rubble like the rest of the complex. To the right there are six segmentally-arched cart sheds underneath the central tower. Hareshowe Farm was moved to the country park in 1990-1 from near New Deer so as to preserve a piece of mid-20th-century, north-east agricultural heritage. The farm is worked by guides and there are costumed guides at the museum who give demonstrations. There is also a sensory garden for disabled people. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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