Basic Site Details
| Name: | Fasnadarach House |
| Town, district or village: | Ballater |
| City or county: | Aberdeenshire |
| Country: | Scotland |
| Parish: | |
| Status: | |
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| Notes: | By the Queen’s road to the Dee, we soon come to a building on its banks, called Fasnadarach. This is a fishing lodge, which has just been erected. Here Mr Truffitt gives us his stepped gables, high roof, verandah and bay windows to his heart’s content. It also has a terrace overhanging the river, and a great river wall going right down to the river. [Aberdeen Journal/Builder 19 September 1874 p791-792] |
Building Type Classification
| The building is classified under the following categories: | |||
| Classification | Original classification? | Notes | |
 | Country House | ||
| Fishing lodge | ||
Events
| The following date-based events are associated with this building: | ||||
| From | To | Event type | Notes | |
| 1874 | Completion | Original building | |
| 1896 | |||
| 1900 | Addition | ||
People
Design and Construction
| The following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | ||||||
| Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | |
| Alexander Marshall Mackenzie | 1896 | Work unclear - alterations? | |||
| Charles Ewen | C | 1900 | Extension | ||
| George Truefitt | c. 1874 | Original building | |||
Clients
| The following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | ||
| Name | Notes | |
| Brooks, Sir William Cunliffe | For original building |
| Cecil, Lady Frances | Daughter of Sir William Cunliffe Brooks. 'Buildings of Scotland' states that she was the client for the 1900 work. |
| Cecil, Sir Ean Francis | Grandson of William Cunliffe Brooks, born 1880. Inherited Glen Tanar Estate in 1900 under the terms of his grandfather's will Role unclear |
References
Bibliographic References
| The following books contain references to this building: | ||||||
| Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | |
| Sharples, J, Walker, D W and Woodworth, M | 2015 | The Buildings of Scotland: Aberdeenshire South and Aberdeen | London and New Haven: Yale University Press | p447 | |
Periodical References
| The following periodicals contain references to this building: | |||||
| Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | |
| Builder | 19 September 1874 | pp791-792 Reprinted from Aberdeen Journal | ||
Archive References
| The following archives hold material relating to this building: | ||||
| Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | |
| Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 47080 | |
| National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | George Truefitt at Glen Tanar 1875-85: photo album | p19 | |
| Viewfield House, Old Perth Rd, Inverness (1990) | A Marshall Mackenzie & Marr Office List (held by John G Marr in 1960) | ||