Blackford
Country House (Period Unassigned), Tower House (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Blackford
Classification Country House (Period Unassigned), Tower House (Medieval)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Blackfoord; Blakfoord
Canmore ID 76765
Site Number NJ73NW 23
NGR NJ 7026 3572
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/76765
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Auchterless
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ73NW 23 702 357
(Location cited as NJ 7026 3572). Blackford (mentioned in 1654, 1702 and 1723). Site of manor; remains of mansion house. Writing in 1723, William Walker reported that 'Blakfoord is a pretty new house, built after the English modell, anno MDCCXXII...'. It then belonged to Alexander Forbes, whode father had bought the estate of Blackford from his father-in-law, Alexander Gellie, in c. 1702. A possession of the Forbeses until 1851, it appears that during the 16th century and probably earlier, Blackford had belonged to a branch of the garden family.
Early in the 19th century, Alexander Forbes' 'fine new house' seems to have been replaced by a new mansion; unroofed in the 1940's, the central portion of this has since been converted for use as a modern house.
[Additional bibliography cited].
NMRS, MS/712/95.
W Kennedy 1818; J Robertson 1818.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Auchterlees, Blackford Home Farmhouse was reduced to single storey. Information from Demolitions catalogue held in RCAHMS Library.
