Glasshaugh House, Aberdeenshire, March 2012

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Stussy

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My visit to Glasshaugh House, Aberdeenshire. It has been posted here before, but here is my attempt.

Glasshaugh House was probably built by General James Abercrombie between 1759 (when he retired from the army) and his death in 1781 and extended and re-cast for Arthur Abercrombie in 1840 by the famous Scottish Architect Archibald Simpson.

Once used to house livestock: chickens on the second floor, pigs on the first - who reached their pens via the principal staircase- and cows on the ground.

It has lay empty for around 60 years, the owner lives next door to the property but it appears it will be left to decline further. The roof is very poor condition and there is quite a bit of wet rot amongst the floor joists, I didn't venture very far from solid ground :lol:


External facades


IMG_7132 by StussyBMX, on Flickr


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Ground floor kitchen I think


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Main Corridor


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Main Corridor by StussyBMX, on Flickr

Always good to keep your Xmas tree for that unlikely occasion..


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First Floor Room, rotten joists, defo a no go


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Stairs to other side of the house


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Little bit of stair porn :lol:


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Umm I read the sign after I had been inside :lol:


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2nd report for me, a few smaller explores on my flickr but also got a few other good ones to get up here!
 
Once used to house livestock: chickens on the second floor, pigs on the first - who reached their pens via the principal staircase- and cows on the ground.

Ha, thats crazy :) But why not I guess? I've just never heard of something like that done before.
 
what a shame a lovely building is left to rot... i should be up this neck of the woods in the summer well peterhead seeing family and doing a bit of photography while im there which very much looking forward to it but knowing my family be more getting drunk than taking photos
 
Ha, thats crazy :) But why not I guess? I've just never heard of something like that done before.
Yeah defo a weird one, the owner must of really likes his animals to put them in here!

what a shame a lovely building is left to rot... i should be up this neck of the woods in the summer well peterhead seeing family and doing a bit of photography while im there which very much looking forward to it but knowing my family be more getting drunk than taking photos
There is lots of nices places not far from Peterhead to explore, some pretty decent sized houses!

What a cracking house that must have been?great report thanks for sharing.
Its been on my list for a few mobths, will defo have to back sometime in the summer.

One day that floor is going to fall on somebody's head. :D
Definately, you can see there is so much rot in the joists from underneath, the owner should have done something long ago about it.
 
Nice work, there's a lot more left than I thought… and "pigs on the first floor" sounds like a wise policy. ;)
 

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