Detail of main entrance porch with rustic tree columns, stickwork and decorative bargeboards Digital image of D/11001

Description Detail of main entrance porch with rustic tree columns, stickwork and decorative bargeboards Digital image of D/11001

Date 12/5/1997

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

Catalogue Number SC 778691

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 11001

Scope and Content Main entrance porch, Mar Lodge, Aberdeenshire, from south This shows the entrance porch on the south front of the main block which has a central Gothic finial with leaf and berry decoration. The porch is supported on rustic log columns and the bargeboards are ornately carved with a linking diamond and circle pattern. Interlocking sticks decorate the underneath of the porch, a craft known as stickwork. This was the main entrance to the lodge and would have been used by the family and their guests. These people would also have used the entrances on the east and west wings but the servants would have entered the building by the service court at the rear of the building. 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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