Building record MAB22661 - HADDO HOUSE HALL

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

Hall, still in use, built in 1891 by D. Macandrew and Co., with the east wing added in the 1980s. When the hall was built, the remains of walls belonging to an earlier house were found (MAB56503). Further foundations were uncovered during a watching brief in 2024, including a 23 m long stone wall located circa 10 m from the eastern wall of the hall, and a second wall aligned northeast-southwest (EAB11748).

The hall is an unusual, well detailed, tall, single-storey building with a part basement. It is a community hall sited to the southeast of Haddo House (MAB22622). It is rectangular in plan and piended with projecting porches, of Canadian-influence design. The hall is constructed using horizontal timber boarding with a steeply pitched, swept piend roof with an elegant polygonal ridge ventilator and a small spire that has a concrete base course or plinth. A distinctive glazing pattern of three horizontally aligned panes over two large vertical panes in timber frames is used, except to the southwest extensions. There are grey slates to the roof and ridge ventilators. The northeast elevation, facing Haddo House, has a swept-roofed gabled porch at the centre flanked by lower tiled lean-to bays and that form a canopy over a short arcade to the right and are enclosed to the left. The long northwest 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 southwest. The surviving parts of a salt glaze soakaway drain associated with the hall were recorded in 2024.

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 northeast over a semi-basement. A fixed timber-balustered stair at the rear gives access to the basement rooms, including a dressing room with a stone fireplace.

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.

Record last edited

Oct 7 2026 2:40PM