Building record MAB24406 - NORTH LODGE, GREAT WESTERN ROAD, ABERDEEN

House and garden depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps, named North Lodge.

House and garden depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps, named North Lodge. Later named Victoria House. A watching brief was carried out by D Hall in June 2010 on two engineers' test pits in the garden area to the rear of Victoria House. These showed that the garden area had been artificially raised at some time in the past using a dump of rubble and mortar fragments. this later sealing deposits of medieval or post medieval date. Fragments of a glass bottle and a clay pipe stem of late 18th or early 19th century date were recovered. Standing building survey was carried out by Cameron Archaeology in 2012. The house was constructed of roughly worked grey granite blocks with pink grey granite window surrounds. The facade of the building and the Georgian style chimney stacks suggest that it may have been built in the 18th century. It has a two-bay centrepiece and William Adam style portico. It had a single storey wing at each end of which only the south-east remained at the time of survey, this of brick and sandstone construction. A building southwest of the house is probably of 19th century date, built of granite fieldstones with cherry cocking. The northwest facade has four arched windows and a single door; the southwest facade on West North Street has a central door, flanking pairs of windows, and a circular window near the top of the gable. A small building in the northwest corner of the plot was probably a gardener's building. Survey also recorded a boundary wall of hand-made 18th century bricks along the northwest edge of the site. A watching brief was maintained by Cameron Archaeology in November 2012 during digging of test pits in the east garden and on the west side of the building. This recorded a dump of brick, stone and mortar probably from building demolition, perhaps when the north wing was removed in the 19th century. The evidence indicates that development on the site had not reached this area by the time of Parson Gordon's map of 1661.

HALL, D, 2010, ARCHAEOLOGICAL WATCHING BRIEF, VICTORIA HOUSE, 84 WEST NORTH STREET, ABERDEEN, WB report (Bibliographic reference). SAB4519.

ARCHAEOLOGY SCOTLAND, 2011, DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION IN SCOTLAND. NEW SERIES, VOLUME 11, 2010, p. 12 (Bibliographic reference). SAB5535.

CAMERON ARCHAEOLOGY, 2012, VICTORIA HOUSE, 84 WEST NORTH STREET, ABERDEEN; STANDING BUILDING SURVEY AND WATCHING BRIEF, SBS and WB report (Bibliographic reference). SAB6899.

CAMERON ARCHAEOLOGY, 2012, VICTORIA HOUSE, 84 WEST NORTH STREET, ABERDEEN; WRITTEN SCHEME OF INVESTIGATION. VERSION 2, WSI (Bibliographic reference). SAB6993.

ARCHAEOLOGY SCOTLAND, 2014, DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION IN SCOTLAND, NEW SERIES, VOLUME 14, 2013, p. 12 (Bibliographic reference). SAB5483.

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Apr 9 2019 1:55PM