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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
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.
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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