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Badenyon
Farmhouse (19th Century)(Possible)
Site Name Badenyon
Classification Farmhouse (19th Century)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Badenyon, Farmhouse
Canmore ID 120003
Site Number NJ31NW 16
NGR NJ 34031 19022
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/120003
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Glenbuchat
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Badenyon, the head of the glen, is a classic Donside farm, solid single-storey-and-attic farmhouse of c.1800 with two half-dormers emerging at the wallhead and a U-plan, single-storey, with lofts steading, (?) c.1830, adjoining. Nearby is site of Badenyon Castle, long gone. A door-hinge in steading is said to come from the castle.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NJ31NW 16.00 34031 19022
NJ31NW 16.01 34000 19028 Steading
For castle of Badenyon (NJ 3412 1898), see NJ31NW 1.
Both the western farmhouse of Badenyon and its associated steading (NJ 3400 1901) have been abandoned, and the house is falling into dereliction.
The house, which measures 14.2m from E to W by 5.6m transversely overall, is of one-and-a-half storeys and fronted with half dormers lighting the rooms on the first floor. The front presents a symmetrical facade, with windows to either side of the central doorway. The kitchen lies in the eastern ground floor room and has a large arched fireplace 2.7m wide, 1.55m high and 0.75m deep. A smaller fireplace with a corbelled lintel has been inserted into the earlier embrasure, which has a salt box in its S jamb.
The steading is U-shaped on plan and a threshing machine survives in the western wing. This was originally driven by a horse-engine outside the W wall, but much of the walkway has been removed. Subsequently the threshing machine was driven by a small petrol or diesel engine.
Visited by RCAHMS (PC, JRS), 12 November 1998.
Begg's House is an outstanding and rare survival of an early Donside vernacular farmhouse. Although now falling into decay it nevertheless exhibits some very fine interior features which identify it as a superior dwelling in the Glen. The extraordinary wide-arched ingle-type fireplace enclosing a canopied central hearth was the only one located during the 2005 survey of Glenbuchat, but a few identical or very similar structures were discovered in the adjoining parish of Strathdon at the old farmhouse at Skellater House, Bellabeg House (also in the older house), West Tornahaish and Mains of Glencarvie. A 'Glenbuchat ingle of the last century´ is illustrated in the Book of Glenbuchat (fig 39) but it does not immediately appear to be the Badenyon example leading to the assumption that there is (or was) at least one further example in the Glen, possibly that at Dulax which may have been partly enclosed. Fenton & Walker say "These fireplaces were much larger than one would expect in the size of building, being of a scale more suitable for the great hall of a tower house or castle". A striking example of the great hearth, with well cut voussoirs, can be found in a farmhouse dated 1822 in Glenfenzie at the top of Glengairn. The wall recess beside the front door is another feature found in a number of Strathdon houses, its purpose was probably for storing a container of milk or water. Badenyon (spelt Badaneoin on the 1st Ordnance Survey map) is sited at the spot where the old drove road from the north crosses the glen, and is fairly typical, although larger than most, of the small farming settlements in Glenbuchat.
The depopulation of this area is well documented, with ample evidence of ruins at almost every settlement. Badenyon, though, has earlier connections as the site of Badenyon Castle is immediately to the east of Begg's House, itself superseded at the beginning of the twentieth century by the separately listed Jeannie's House. There are two steading ranges at the Badenyon settlement, that immediately to the west of Begg's House is a slate-roofed U-plan steading of slightly later date, listed at category C(S). (Historic Scotland)
