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Event ID 564062
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/564062
Tillycorthie Mansion, 1911, John Cameron For James Rollo Duncan, a renowned Bolivian tin magnate. Not quite the earliest concrete mansion to be built in Britain (Beachtower at Dundee, 1874 ... also Hydropathic at Melrose are earlier still), it is a bewildering amalgam of the high-tech and the sub-baronial. The symmetrical front has as centre a thin
battlemented tower (with chimneys rising from the merlons) flanked by gabled, crowstepped wings with pencil-slim turrets, with glazed screens between. Oak panelling in entrance hall and drawing room; chimney of heating plant rises in adjacent field, served by long underground flue; ice-rink on roof of power house; artificial lake. Converted to three (large)
flats, 1980s.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
