Interior View from SW of Home Farm, byre showing former stable stalls Digital image of D/2567

Description Interior View from SW of Home Farm, byre showing former stable stalls Digital image of D/2567

Date 26/8/1996

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 747349

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 2567

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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