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Nether Ardgrain

A Category A Listed Building in Ellon, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.396 / 57°23'45"N

Longitude: -2.0799 / 2°4'47"W

OS Eastings: 395295

OS Northings: 833957

OS Grid: NJ952339

Mapcode National: GBR P965.KTW

Mapcode Global: WH9PL.0CVH

Plus Code: 9C9V9WWC+C2

Entry Name: Nether Ardgrain

Listing Name: Nether Ardgrain, Farmhouse

Listing Date: 16 April 1971

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 341359

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9106

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200341359

Location: Ellon

County: Aberdeenshire

Electoral Ward: Ellon and District

Parish: Ellon

Traditional County: Aberdeenshire

Tagged with: Farmhouse

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Description

Dated C.R. 1664 at Royal Arms in centre gable and J.E.B.

1751 at lintel. (Query if all of 1751 re-using materials of

1664 house). 2-storey and dormerless attic, harled, skewputts,

steeply battered walls, approximately symmetrical S. front

with centre 1-window gable of slight projection, roll

moulded doorpiece with arched panel (inscribed HOW HAPPY

WOVLD THE HVSBANDMAN BE IF HE KNEW HIS OWN GOOD [VIRGIL] LET IMPROVEMENTS AND LIBERTY FLOVRISH.) and sundial over.

1-window each side, those on E. asymmetrically placed, all

chamfered. Single-storey kitchen wing at right angles S.W.

Interior: woodwork all of 1751, original chimney-pieces at

1st floor, one moulded 17th or 18th century, one c. 1800. Column-balustered stair. S.E. ground floor room formerly

had chimneypiece in S.W. angle.

Statement of Interest

This house is not easy to date. A.G.R. Mackenzie believed

it to be of the 1664 date merely refitted with the door

raised by Bean. The lower jambs are of surface granite, the

very thin top jambs freestone and the lintel quarried

granite. Except for the steep batter of the walls (including

the centre gable) and the roll moulded doorpiece the house

would accord well enough with a mid 18th century date.

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