Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 563181
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Whitehaugh House, 1745, 1838-40, W & J Smith additions and reconstruction. The Smiths did their best for Col J J F Leith
but the articulation of their wings and heavy columned porch with the earlier spare Georgian box is achieved with some grinding of the gears, despite the strict adherence to symmetry. The original two-storey-and-basement, seven-window ashlar block with advanced and pedimented central part rather lurks behind the Smiths' over-large Doric portico. Their wings are one-window, single-storey-and-basement, with neat pediments echoing the central block. The single-storey
north wing has columned and glazed square bay. Nevertheless an honourable endeavour. Neo-Tudor chapel nearby.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
