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Meldrum House, Stables And Dovecot
Coach House (Period Unassigned), Dovecot (Period Unassigned), Gate(S) (Period Unassigned), Stable(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Meldrum House, Stables And Dovecot
Classification Coach House (Period Unassigned), Dovecot (Period Unassigned), Gate(S) (Period Unassigned), Stable(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Meldrum House, Outer Gates And Stable And Coach-house Block; Meldrum House Hotel
Canmore ID 19639
Site Number NJ82NW 13.01
NGR NJ 81217 29095
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19639
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Meldrum
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Many good structures in policies, including a pair of circular, 17th-century garden houses originally entered from the first floor off a little wooden bridge. Outer gate and stable and coach house of 1628 (altered ?1777) consists of a U-plan
into which coach house inserted in the late 18th century; doocot in upper floor; fine royal arms on north-west face. Tunnel-vaulted ground floor, bosses on vault. South Lodge, 1851, restored 1982, Marion Fraser (also known as Chain
Lodge). Tudor, single-storey dark granite with fancy bargeboards and lattice glazing; roofline pierced by four diagonal chimneys and spiky finials. South gates, 1851 'presumably', restored 1986. Tudor-Jacobean, harled with dark granite
dressings, at middle a four-centred arch with keystone and octagonal piers with 'double globule' finials; footgates in flanking screen walls. Farm and semicircular kennels wing are excellent.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NJ82NW 13.01 81217 29095
(NJ 812 290). At Old Meldrum House Hotel, the dovecot is an ornamental building placed on the stone archway of the stables. It is a large rectangular tower which has four corbelled half turrets, semi-circular, at each corner. There is a coat of arms carved on a tablet on the N wall. A stone panel to the right of it bears the date 1628 and a Latin prayer. The entrance to the dovecot is by 15 steps.
A N Robertson 1957.
Photographic Survey (March 1954)
Photographs of Meldrum House and buildings in Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, by the National Buildings Record Scottish Council in March 1954.
Photographic Survey (September 1960)
Photographs of Meldrum House, Aberdeenshire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in September 1960.
Project (22 September 2020 - 6 October 2020)
A series of small blocks within the Meldrum house estate are being developed for housing. Evaluation of four areas did not reveal any archaeological features or finds. A trench across the yard in front of the 19th-century kennels showed that a water-filled feature on the 1867 OS map had been a bitumen-lined pool, presumably for the dogs. Fieldwalking was undertaken in woods around the development. Well-preserved rig and furrow was recorded on the SE perimeter of the estate (NJ 81670 28890), pre-dating the woodland which is shown on a 1780 estate plan.
Information from H. K. Murray and J. C. Murray - Murray Archaeological Servicesv (MAS).
OASIS ID: mas1-410947
