Auquharney House
House (19th Century)
Site Name Auquharney House
Classification House (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Auguharney House; Auquarney House
Canmore ID 20938
Site Number NK03NW 23
NGR NK 02317 38010
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20938
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Cruden
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Standing Building Recording (7 October 2016)
NK 02430 37950 An unusual two-part building consisting of a slate-roofed and stone-walled shed open to the S with a large horticultural frame or hot bed abutting one gable was surveyed on 7 October 2016. A stoking pit in the shed allowed fuelling of a stove which channelled hot air through an underground heating duct below the earth in the hot bed and out through a chimney. The stove, made by Goddard of Nottingham, appears to have been manufactured between 1851 and 1874, which fits with the OS map evidence which indicates that the horticultural frame was built by 1870, but the shed with the heating system was added by 1899. This elaborate structure may have been a pinery, allowing the 19th-century owners of Auquharney House to enjoy the fashion of growing pineapples.
Archive: NRHE. Report: Aberdeenshire SMR
Funder: Aberdeenshire Council
Hilary and Charlie Murray – Murray Archaeological Services Ltd
(Source: DES, Volume 18)
