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Kintore, Northern Road, Bridgend, Summer House

Summerhouse (20th Century)(Possible)

Site Name Kintore, Northern Road, Bridgend, Summer House

Classification Summerhouse (20th Century)(Possible)

Canmore ID 267437

Site Number NJ71NE 158.03

NGR NJ 78917 16775

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Kintore
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Gordon
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Site Management (14 May 2012)

Tall single storey and attic, 3-bay, L-plan former Bridgealehouse, with stone-pedimented windowheads. Harl with granite ashlar dressings to E and N dormer windows. 4-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped squared rubble and harled stacks with thackstanes and some cans. Ashlar-coped skews.

ANCILLARY BUILDING AND SUMMER HOUSE: slated rubble, mono-pitch ancillary with boarded timber door to W of house, and rectangular-plan circa 1900 timber summer house with canted cornere windows to E.BOUNDARY WALLS: coursed rubble boundary walls, some flat coped and some rubble coped.

The Aberdeen to Inverurie Canal was opened in 1807, it closed in 1852 after being sold to the Great North of Scotland Railway Company. Bridgealehouse operated as an ale house beside the canal and later for the nearby Kintore railway station (Aberdeen to Huntly line) which opened in 1854. The house was probably also a posting station on the Great Northern Road, with three stage-coaches passing through Kintore twice daily, this would certainly have called for the ample stabling provided by this good-sized steading.

The name 'Bridgealehouse' had been altered to 'Bridgend' some time before the Third Statistical Account, but lives on in the nearby 'Bridgealehouse Burn'. (Historic Scotland)

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