Building record MAB22661 - HADDO HOUSE HALL

Hall, still in use, built in 1891 by D Macandrew and Company with the east wing added in the 1980s.

Hall, still in use, built in 1891 by D Macandrew and Company with the east wing added in the 1980s. When the hall was built the remains of walls belonging to an earlier house were found (NJ83SE0020). It is an unusual, well detailed, tall single storey building with a part basement. It is rectangular in plan and a piended community hall with projecting porches, of Canadian-influence design, sited to the south-east of Haddo House (NJ83SE0042). The hall is constructed using horizontal timber boarding with steeply-pitched swept piend roof and an elegant polygonal ridge ventilator and small spire, and has a concrete base course/plinth. A distinctive glazing pattern of three horizontally-aligned panes over two large vertical panes in timber frames is used, except to the south-west extensions. There are grey slates to the roof and ridge ventilators. The north-east elevation facing Haddo House has a swept-roofed gabled porch at the centre flanked by lower tiled lean-to bays and that to right forming a canopy over a short arcade and that to the left enclosed. The long north-west elevation has steps up to a centre door with single windows to the outer bays and a full-width ribbon window abutting eaves. There is a further low gabled porch to the south-west. The timber-lined interior has an open timbered roof of scissor-truss type with suspended beams radiating from a central point, decorative ventilators and a part dado rail. The stage is at the north-east over a semi-basement. A fixed timber-balustered stair at the rear gives access to basement rooms, including a dressing room with a stone fireplace. RCAHMS conducted a photographic survey of Haddo House Hall as part of its Threatened Buildings Survey in June 2007. Cameron Archaeology conducted a watching brief in May 2024 during excavation of a trench for cable ducting (NJ83SE0192). The foundations of a 23 m long stone wall were recorded approximately 10 m from the eastern wall of the hall under an existing path. The watching brief also recorded the disturbed foundations of another stone wall aligned northeast-southwest. A segment of a broken salt glaze drain was found to be abutting the southeastern wall of the hall; the surviving parts of a soakaway drain associated with the hall.

Period Notes
Built in 1891. Listed 14/12/2009. 20th century addition.

CAMERON ARCHAEOLOGY, 2024, HADDO HOUSE, METHLICK, ELLON, ABERDEENSHIRE, AB41 7EQ REPORT ON THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL WATCHING BRIEF, Watching Brief (Bibliographic reference). SAB8956.

Sep 11 1988 , HT 9, HT 9 (Ground Photograph). SAB34084.

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Nov 14 2025 2:26PM