Architecture Notes

Event ID 832891

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NJ66SE 8.00 69063 63317

Duff House [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2009.

NJ66SE 8.01 69065 62848 Fishing Temple

NJ66SE 8.02 68734 63178 Fife Gates

NJ66SE 8.03 68524 62858 Ice house

NJ66SE 8.04 68043 62826 and 67974 62786 Mausoleum and St Mary's Well

NJ66SE 8.05 69054 63729 Walled Garden

NJ66SE 8.06 6902 6357 Nurses' Home

NJ66SE 8.07 6900 6330 Policies, General

NJ66SE 8.08 69378 63788 Bridge of Banff Lodge

NJ66SE 8.09 68929 63785 Collie Lodge

For dovecot at NJ 6820 6320, see NJ66SE 39.

For Eagle's Gate Lodge (NJ 6714 6162), see NJ66SE 127.

For Bridge of Alvah (NJ6803 6162) and adjacent Craig Cottage, see NJ66SE 98 and 128 respectively.

(NJ 6907 6330) Duff House (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1960)

Duff House, scheduled and in the care of the MoW, was built by William Adam, c.1750.

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; Country Life 1964.

As described.

Visited by OS (NKB) 1 February 1968.

Precise location of various lodges, gatepiers, a summerhouse and a bridge on the grounds (carrying main road to Turriff) uncertain at time of upgrade, 18.05.01.

ARCHITECT: William Adam

David Bryce, jnr. - addition of wings 1870

'Best apartments not finished by 1788'. (Tour in England & Scotland' 1788)

2nd Lord Fife designed 'eagle gates'

NMRS REFERENCE:

Simpson & Brown photographs :

Box 2, Album no: 17 statues and exterior views

Box 7, Album no: 103a 1988 exterior and interiors

DUFF HOUSE DRAWINGS

A collection of designs for DUff House by David Bryce, junior, 1870.

Deposited by Banff and Buchan District Council 1975

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Aberdeen Public Library, Reference Department

Lithograph from drawing by Charles Cordiner.

Scottish Record Office (SRO)

DUFF HOUSE -LAWSUIT

1743 3 Feb -"Lo/Bracco and Mr Adams were this day before the Lords about the building of the house, Mr Adams claims a balance of #5700 str and its thought he will prevaile" - Lachlan Grant, Edr to Ludovick Grant of Grant in London, 3 Feb 1743 -GD 248/168/11

Braco is "out of all temper" on 17th at losing a case against a tenant whom he is ordered to repossess and pay costs

and damages - lb., 17th Feb., 168/1/127

National Library

'Lord Fife and His Factor' by Alistair & Henrietta Taylor

(Undated) information in NMRS.