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Haddo House, Aberdeenshire

Haddo House

Haddo House is a stately home in Aberdeenshire, approximately twenty miles north of Aberdeen. The home of the Marquesses of Aberdeen, it has been owned by the National Trust for Scotland since 1979.

The house and its predecessors have been the seat of the Gordons, later Earls and Marquesses of Aberdeen, for over 500 years. Nearby lies the site of the old Kellie Castle, which was the Gordon family's previous seat, until burnt down by the Covenanters in the seventeenth century.

The house was built in 1732, designed by William Adam in the Georgian Palladian style. The interior though is late Victorian in style, after a refurbishment in 1880. (Read more)