Ruigh Nan Clach
Building(S) (Post Medieval), Gamekeepers House (19th Century)
Site Name Ruigh Nan Clach
Classification Building(S) (Post Medieval), Gamekeepers House (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Mar Lodge Estate; Geldie Burn; Bynack Lodge To Ruigh Nan Clach
Canmore ID 81209
Site Number NO08NW 16
NGR NO 00769 87397
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/81209
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Crathie And Braemar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NO08NW 16 00769 87397
See also NO08NW 10, NO08NW 17, NO08NW 19.00, NO08NW 20.
Scheduled (with NO08NW 10, NO08NW 17, NO08NW 19.00, NO08NW 20 ) as 'Mar, shielings, enclosures and buildings, Bynack Lodge to Ruigh nan Clach...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 30 March 2009.
Field Visit (24 June 1993)
NO 007 873. At least three buildings, all aligned from NE to SW, are situated in a small clearing within a coniferous plantation to the NW of the Geldie Burn. At the centre of the clearing is a house (MAR93 274) which still stands to gable height and is depicted as roofed on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire 1869 and 1900, Sheet xcvi). The ONB identifies the building as a gamekeeper's house (ONB 1869). It has mortared walls, two storeys, fireplaces, a porch and a press. There are slates embedded in mortar in the gable ends. This building is much wider than the township buildings elsewhere in the area, measuring 12.1m by 4.7m within walls 0.6m in thickness. A garden plot lying immediately to the SW, is also depicted on the OS 6-inch maps. A second building (MAR93 275), also depicted as roofed on the 1st and 2nd edition maps, lies to the WNW of the gamekeeper's house. It has been reduced to about 1m in height and measures 10.5m by 3.6m with faced-rubble walls 0.8m in thickness. The third building (MAR93 276), situated on the edge of the clearing to the E of the gamekeeper's house, is not depicted on any of the maps and measures 10.8m by 2.2m within grass-grown faced-rubble footings 0.7m in thickness and 0.3m in height.
(MAR93 274-6)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC), 24 June 1993.
