Buckie, 7 Baron Street, Cluny Lodge and Garden Wall Buckie, Moray, Scotland, UK
Mid-later 18th century. E facing symmetrical 2-storey, 5-bay house. Harled, ashlar margins and dressings, harl pointed rubble rear. Centre door; 1st floor windows linked by lintel/eaves band; 1st floor window in S gable; 4-pane glazing.
Listed Building Description
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Mid-later 18th century. E facing symmetrical 2-storey, 5-bay house. Harled, ashlar margins and dressings, harl pointed rubble rear. Centre door; 1st floor windows linked by lintel/eaves band; 1st floor window in S gable; 4-pane glazing. Blocked door in N gable. Centre rear gable with apex stack, flat skews and shallow cavetto skewputts. Flat gable skews; moulded run-off skewputts; end and apex stacks with mid-later 18th century moulded cornices; slate roofs; stone ridge. INTERIOR: some fielded panelled doors survive. Rear garden enclosed by rubble wall.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
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Easter Buckie (land E of the Buckie Burn) purchased by 1759 by John Gordon, 1st of Cluny, sometime Curator to Duke of Gordon with special responsibility for the Spey fishings and a merchant in Edinburgh. His eldest son, Cosmo (born Bellie Parish 1736, died 1800) inherited the Buckie lands on his father's death in 1769 and concerned with the property, leaving the Edinburgh interests to his brother Charles Gordon of Braid. Cosmo was appointed a Baron of Exchequer by Lord North and Known as 'Baron' Gordon thereafter. Either he or his father built Cluny Lodge (orginally called Buckie Lodge). Cosmo died without an heir. House said to have been divided into 2 dwellings (probably during 19th century), 1 served by the now blocked door in N gable.
Listed Building References
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THE STATISTICAL ACCOUNT (1792-3, Witherington and Grant ed. 1982), p. 363. NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT (1842), p. 253. J Malcolm Bulloch, THE GORDONS OF CLUNY (nd), pp2-18