Architecture Notes

Event ID 823920

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NO88NE 32.00 85944 87721

NO88NE 32.01 85579 88950 Houff of Ury (Mausoleum)

NO88NE 32.02 85592 88922 Houff of Ury, Enclosing Walls

NO88NE 32.03 87013 88916 North Lodge

NO88NE 32.04 86418 86784 South Lodge

NO88NE 32.05 85323 87538 Blue Lodge

NO88NE 32.06 85800 88265 Ury Home Farm (and Sawmill)

NO88NE 32.07 85624 88242 Keeper's Cottage

NO88NE 32.08 85749 87897 Walled Garden

NO88NE 32.09 87140 87389 New Mains of Ury

NO88NE 32.10 87059 87289 New Mains of Ury Cottages

NO88NE 32.11 85956 87738 Terrace Walls

NO88NE 32.12 85819 87932 Coach House (Baille Na Choile)

NO88NE 32.13 85322 87523 Blue Lodge, Gate

NO88NE 32.14 86021 87767 Bridge over Ury Burn

NO88NE 32.15 85994 87803 Ice-house

NO88NE 32.16 85540 87800 Viaduct over Cowie Water

NO88NE 32.17 86425 86768 New Lodge, Boundary Walls and Gate-piers

Ury House.

ARCHITECT: John Baird (Primus) - for Baird Family 1855, extensive additions later - gutted (Wing added 1884)

Alexander Ross 1882 - additions.

DEMOLISHED 1956

NMRS PLANS: F.A.M.MacDonald Collection

For plantation bank within Ury House policies (at NO 8641 8690), see NO88NE 45.

In 1854 the early 17th-century house of Ury was demolished to make way for the present mansion, now in a dilapidated condition. It was an L-plan house of three storeys, subsequently converted to the Z-plan by the addition of round towers at two of the diagonally opposite angles, and it is said to have been vaulted throughout.

Statistical Account (OSA) 1794; New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; A Jervise 1861; W Macfarlane 1906-8; E H M Cox 1935; RCAHMS 1984, visited December 1983.

Listed.

Scottish Castle Survey 1988; N Bogdan and I B D Bryce 1991.

Visible on air photograph AAS/93/06/G14/15. Copy held by Grampian Regional Council.

Information from M Greig, Grampian Regional Council, March 1994.