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Chapel House, Deecastle

A Category B Listed Building in Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.0582 / 57°3'29"N

Longitude: -2.9302 / 2°55'48"W

OS Eastings: 343680

OS Northings: 796734

OS Grid: NO436967

Mapcode National: GBR WK.9C47

Mapcode Global: WH7NF.YVVH

Plus Code: 9C9V3359+7W

Entry Name: Chapel House, Deecastle

Listing Name: By Dinnet, Deecastle, Chapel House

Listing Date: 16 April 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 341552

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9290

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Deecastle, Chapel House
Chapel House, Dee Castle

ID on this website: 200341552

Location: Glenmuick, Tullich and Glengairn

County: Aberdeenshire

Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside

Parish: Glenmuick, Tullich And Glengairn

Traditional County: Aberdeenshire

Tagged with: House Chapel

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Description

1797. 2-storey 3-bay rectangular-plan classical symmetrical building. Built as Roman Catholic chapel. Later dressed granite forestair to 1st floor doorway to gabled E elevation, late 20th century single storey outshot to N (rear) elevation. Converted to a private dwelling late 20th century. Tooled, squared and coursed granite. Harled to gable and N elevations. Situated S of the River Dee on an elevated site previously occupied by Dee Castle, incorporating a fragment of the castle in the NW angle of house.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to S elevation, some 6-pane timber casement, 4-pane fixed with 2-pane top hoppers over to other elevations. 4-panel late 20th century timber door, boarded timber door at 1st floor. Grey slated roof, stone ridge, tooled granite skews, corniced gable stacks. Cast-iron rhones and rhone pipes.

INTERIOR: admission not obtained at time of survey (2006).

Statement of Interest

Chapel House takes a highly unusual form for a Roman Catholic chapel. It is intentionally discrete, designed to look like a small classical house in the countryside, possibly reflecting prevalent attitudes toward the Catholic Church at the end of the 18th century. The chapel was disused by 1898. Other sources state that it was used by Free Church of Scotland form 1843 (Geddes, Deeside and the Mearns). It stands close to the site of Dee Castle, erected by the Gordons in the mid 15th century, burnt in 1641.

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