Archaeology Notes

Event ID 671111

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ93NE 17 9767 3709.

(NJ 9767 3709) Dudwick Ho. (NAT) (Remains of)

OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 1st ed., (1868)

The mansion house of Dudwick was built by General James King, Lord Eythin, when he purchased the estate of Dudwick in 1636. It was a fine example of the Scottish Domestic Architecture of the period. A drawing taken in 1851 is reproduced in the 1887 edition of 'Castles of Aberdeenshire' (Ferguson 1913).

The mansion stood in the area north of the present farmhouse and steadings. On the death of General Robert Fullerton in 1786 it became the farmhouse for Mains of Dudwick till 1865 when it was pulled down and all trace of it obliterated, although according to the Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB, 1868) a small portion of the north and west walls remained in 1868. The two-storey north wing of the present farmhouse was built out of its materials.

Two stone balls from the old building decorate the pillars that form the gateway to the present garden (Godsman 1958).

Name Book 1868; J Ferguson 1913; J Godsman 1958.

No trace.

Visited by OS (R L) 16 May 1972.