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Latitude: 57.5284 / 57°31'42"N
Longitude: -2.0439 / 2°2'37"W
OS Eastings: 397472
OS Northings: 848693
OS Grid: NJ974486
Mapcode National: GBR P89T.QBF
Mapcode Global: WH9P0.K1YH
Plus Code: 9C9VGXH4+9F
Entry Name: Temple Of Theseus, Pitfour House Estate
Listing Name: Temple of Theseus, the Lake, Pitfour (Captain Curzon)
Listing Date: 16 April 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 349778
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16068
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Pitfour House Estate, Temple Of Theseus
ID on this website: 200349778
Location: Old Deer
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Central Buchan
Parish: Old Deer
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Folly
Circa 1835 (?). Small Greek Docic Hexastyle temple with 34 granite- column peristyle; wood entabuature; very finely detailed.
Interior contains cold bath. Roof dilapidated and parts of cornice missing.
B group
Although the house was demolished in 1927-30 and the grounds have suffered much from timber felling, the Lake and its surrounding buildings still have great landscape and architectural value.
The buildings are probably all the work of John Smith who is credited with the house (reconstructed c 1809; fire damaged 1820, reinstated with further additions 1821-2) in the A.P.S.D. and his Aberdeen Journal Obituary.
Virtually nothing remains of the house; the basin of the fountain survives on the E. much damaged. The Riding School is much altered.
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