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Field Visit
Date 19 July 1928
Event ID 1098210
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1098210
Aberdour House.
This house, known originally as Cuttlehill House, stands on the right bank of the Dour Burn to the west of the Castle and is a good late 17th-century building, reconditioned and enlarged in 1715 (1). It is oblong on plan with a short wing projecting eastward at each end. Its over-all measurements are 67 by 41 ½ feet, excluding the kitchen premises, which are grouped round a small court to the north. The house is two storeys and an attic in height. The masonry is harled rubble with exposed dressings. The principal front is on the west, and there the window margins are back-set and the quoins channelled. The centre part, in which lies the entrance, is set forward and is surmounted by a pediment. Internally the rooms are well proportioned, and in several the original panelling and fireplaces remain.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 19 July 1928.
(1) Aberdour and lnchcolme, Wm. Ross, LL.D., p.25.
