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Publication Account
Date 1997
Event ID 1019056
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019056
This outstanding piece of domestic architecture is one of the few remaining early buildings in the town figure 20. The earliest section is a three-storey wing perhaps dating from the mid sixteenth century. The interior has a painted gallery of 1626, which contains an important cycle of religious paintings; and some other seventeenth-century additions remain intact, for example a fine ceiling in one of the bedrooms. The house was owned by Sir George Skene, provost of Aberdeen in 1676-1685; used by the Duke of Cumberland in February 1746 on route north to crush the Jacobites; and was restored in the twentieth century.
Information from ‘Historic Aberdeen: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1997).
