Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

BY DINNET, DEECASTLE, CHAPEL HOUSELB9290

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
16/04/1971
Local Authority
Aberdeenshire
Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Parish
Glenmuick, Tullich And Glengairn
National Park
Cairngorms
NGR
NO 43680 96734
Coordinates
343680, 796734

Description

1797. 2-storey 3-bay rectangular-plan classical symmetrical building. Built as Roman Catholic chapel. Later dressed granite forestair to 1st floor doorway to gabled E elevation, late 20th century single storey outshot to N (rear) elevation. Converted to a private dwelling late 20th century. Tooled, squared and coursed granite. Harled to gable and N elevations. Situated S of the River Dee on an elevated site previously occupied by Dee Castle, incorporating a fragment of the castle in the NW angle of house.

12-pane timber sash and case windows to S elevation, some 6-pane timber casement, 4-pane fixed with 2-pane top hoppers over to other elevations. 4-panel late 20th century timber door, boarded timber door at 1st floor. Grey slated roof, stone ridge, tooled granite skews, corniced gable stacks. Cast-iron rhones and rhone pipes.

INTERIOR: admission not obtained at time of survey (2006).

Statement of Special Interest

Chapel House takes a highly unusual form for a Roman Catholic chapel. It is intentionally discrete, designed to look like a small classical house in the countryside, possibly reflecting prevalent attitudes toward the Catholic Church at the end of the 18th century. The chapel was disused by 1898. Other sources state that it was used by Free Church of Scotland form 1843 (Geddes, Deeside and the Mearns). It stands close to the site of Dee Castle, erected by the Gordons in the mid 15th century, burnt in 1641.

References

Bibliography

1st Edition Ordnance Survey Map, (1866). RCAHMS Numbers NO49NW 12. Jane Geddes, Deeside and the Mearns (2001) p130.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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