Description

A later 19^th century, single-storey, three-bay former estate worker's cottage, likely built by Haddo Estate Office of Works and set within an area of grassed parks and woodland in the Haddo House designed landscape, near Methlick.

It is built to an L-plan from rusticated ashlar. The symmetrical front elevation has two bay windows with prominent castellated parapets. There are three tapered chimney stacks at each gable end. There is a later, lean-to porch addition to the rear elevation. The interior retains some simple cornicing.

Carpenter's Cottage was built between 1868 and 1899 within the Haddo Estate. It appears on the Ordnance Survey Second Edition map with an additional outshot building to the rear (north), a water pump to the east and a square garden enclosure to the west (revised 1899, published 1900). By the 1970s, the outshot building had been removed – replaced with a separate timber structure to a similar footprint (evident Ordnance Survey 1973). The rear porch extension had also been added by this date. The walled garden enclosure was removed in the later 20^th or early 21^st century.

Historical development:

Carpenter's Cottage was built between 1868 and 1899 within the Haddo Estate. It appears on the Ordnance Survey Second Edition map with an additional outshot building to the rear (north), a water pump to the east and a square garden enclosure to the west (revised 1899, published 1900). By the 1970s, the outshot building had been removed – replaced with a separate timber structure to a similar footprint (evident Ordnance Survey 1973). The rear porch extension had also been added by this date. The walled garden enclosure was removed in the later 20^th or early 21^st century.

Statement of Interest

Carpenter's Cottage meets the criteria for listing for the following reasons:

• As a little-altered estate worker's cottage of good quality materials and detailing.
• For its intact designed landscape setting.
• As part of a wider group of estate buildings that contribute to an understanding of how the estate worked.

Architectural interest

Carpenter's Cottage retains its plan-form, exterior profile and details as first designed and built – most likely by the Haddo Estate Office of Works. The ashlar construction is high quality, while the castellated window parapets set the building apart from plainer cottages of this period. It also retains its internal layout and some modest details to the interior.

The building's relationship with its immediate and wider setting, with its landscape and with other buildings, contributes to its special interest. Located a short distance west of the Pheasantry (built 1884, LB46161), Carpenter's Cottage remains clearly identifiable as an estate cottage and a functional ancillary of Haddo House. While the building has lost its adjacent garden enclosure, the surrounding landscape components of an access track and grassed parks are otherwise intact and are themselves located within an extensive and complete woodland and parkland landscape of 18^th–19^th century date which itself is designated for its national importance (GDL00206).

Historic interest

Estate workers' cottages of traditional stone construction are a common building type in Scotland. Many were built in the 19^th century to house servants and labourers on landed estates. Other examples at Haddo include Gardener's Cottage (circa 1843 LB16478), South Lodge (circa 1845, LB16013), Woodside House (circa 1860, LB16459), Brainjohn Farmhouse, Raxton Farmhouse and Borderside Cottage. While Carpenter's Cottage is not an early example of an estate cottage, it is little-altered and retains its historic character within its designed landscape setting.

The Haddo Estate had a huge workforce in the 19^th century. Under the Gordons of Haddo, the estate expanded and developed with the 18^th-century Haddo House (LB16470) at the centre of a large, designed landscape of gardens, parks and woodlands and a wider estate for farming and forestry. Many surviving historic buildings at Haddo bear witness to the social and economic foundations of the estate, focussed on maintaining the status and lifestyle of the Gordons and encompassing various rural livelihoods. The name Carpenter's Cottage indicates the role of a former occupant of the cottage and the building contributes to a more general understanding of how estate staff lived and worked in the past.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)