Menie House
Country House (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Menie House
Classification Country House (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Mennie House
Canmore ID 77030
Site Number NJ92SE 17
NGR NJ 97764 20487
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/77030
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Belhelvie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Menie House, c.1835, John Smith. Out of Auchmacoy (qv) but more ponderously Jacobean; two storeys with dormer-heads in pinned granite with freestone dressings and diagonally set chimney-shafts; symmetrical southwest front enlivened by central bay with curvilinear gable flanked by octagonal angles with sharp finials. North-west front has Tudor porch and circular angle-tower. Earlier (1782-3) two-storey, L-plan house incorporated at south-east.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NJ92SE 17.00 97764 20487
NJ92SE 17.01 97845 20601 Menie Park
NJ92SE 17.02 96916 20677 Menie Lodge
NJ92SE 17.03 97842 20626 Whin mill
(Location cited as NJ 9780 2060). Possible site of manor. [Unspecified] documentary record only.
NMRS, MS/712/86.
NMRS REFERENCE
Mansion house with lake and fine garden now owned by Mr D.C. Stewart of Arnerge Castle (Source - Aberdeenshire, Third Statistical Account, published 1960).
