Building record MAB18763 - HOUSE OF DAVIOT

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Summary

Mansion house, possibly built on site of earlier manor, now in multiple occupancy accommodation.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (B) 2792

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Location

Grid reference Centred NJ 7423 2834 (73m by 85m) Centred at - Polygon: Known Site Extent
Map sheet NJ72NW
Authority Aberdeenshire
Civil Parish Daviot

Type and Period (5)

Full Description

Mansion house, possibly built on site of earlier manor, now in multiple occupancy accommodation. The present house was formerly known as New House of Glack, built in 1876 to a design by James Matthews for J. Mackenzie. It is a rather municipal baronial mansion house, of 3-storey and attic or 4-storey, partly of ashlar construction, partly squared granite rubble, with the remainder harled. There is an oriel window over a south elevation door, a corbel course at the top of the second floor, corbiesteps and a central, battlemented tower with turrets. There are some good Elizabethan ceilings and a late 18th Century chimney piece from the old house. In the late 19th century it was acquired by Aberdeen's Royal Cornhill Asylum (in 1888) and became the County Lunatic Asylum (the Old House of Glack - NJ72NW0145 becoming the nurses home). Craigshannoch House was built in the estate (NJ72NW0101) southwest of the walled garden in the 1930s as a male patients' villa. During the war the asylum was converted to a hospital for the wounded. It closed as a hospital in 1995. The house sits within a designated landscape (NJ72NW0101). Today it has again been converted, along with the other buildings of the policies, to residential houses and flats.

Period Notes
Built 1876. Conversion into County Asylum in 1889; rear wing added 1934; addition of butterfly-plan male hospital block 1935.


Author unknown, 1799, OLD STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, 3rd, p547 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1845.

SMITH, A, 1875, A NEW HISTORY OF ABERDEENSHIRE, 467 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1794.

DAVIDSON, J, 1878, INVERURIE & EARLDOM OF GARIOCH, 412 (Bibliographic reference). SAB349.

SHEPHERD, I.A.G.S., 2006, DONSIDE & STRATHBOGIE: ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE, p.108 (Bibliographic reference). SAB3366.

Feb 1 1999 , AAS/99/03/CT31-42, AAS/99/03/CT31-42 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB17117.

Feb 1 1999 , AAS/99/03/G5/27-30, AAS/99/03/G5/27-30 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB17116.

Jul 12 2010 , AAS-10-3 DG1867-8, AAS-10-3 DG1867-8 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB20618.

SDD, n.d., BLDS OF ARCH & HIST INTEREST, DAVIOT 4 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1827.

Oct 4 2007 , AAS/07/02/DG1817-9, AAS/07/02/DG1817-9 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB19248.

Sep 24 2005 , prints, prints (Ground Photograph). SAB18309.

Other Statuses/References

  • Authority: ASH;
  • HES Listed Building Number: 2792;
  • NMR Card Number: NJ72NW77;
  • NRHE Numlink: 119236;
  • Old Historic Environment Record Ref: NJ72NW0058;

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Sources/Archives (10)

  • --- Air-oblique Photograph: Feb 1 1999 . AAS/99/03/G5/27-30. Black & White. AAS/99/03/G5/27-30.
  • --- Air-oblique Photograph: Feb 1 1999 . AAS/99/03/CT31-42. Colour Transparency. AAS/99/03/CT31-42.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: SMITH, A. 1875. A NEW HISTORY OF ABERDEENSHIRE. 467.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: SDD. n.d.. BLDS OF ARCH & HIST INTEREST. DAVIOT 4.
  • --- Ground Photograph: Sep 24 2005 . prints. Colour Negative. prints.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: Author unknown. 1799. OLD STATISTICAL ACCOUNT. 3rd, p547.
  • --- Air-oblique Photograph: Oct 4 2007 . AAS/07/02/DG1817-9. DG. AAS/07/02/DG1817-9.
  • --- Air-oblique Photograph: Jul 12 2010 . AAS-10-3 DG1867-8. Digital. AAS-10-3 DG1867-8.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: SHEPHERD, I.A.G.S.. 2006. DONSIDE & STRATHBOGIE: ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE. N. p.108.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: DAVIDSON, J. 1878. INVERURIE & EARLDOM OF GARIOCH. 412.

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Nov 11 2022 4:12PM

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