Carpenter's Cottage

A later 19th century, single-storey, three-bay former estate worker's cottage, likely built by Haddo Estate Office of Works and set within an area of grassed parks and woodland in the Haddo House designed landscape, near Methlick.

It is built to an L-plan from rusticated ashlar. The symmetrical front elevation has two bay windows with prominent castellated parapets. There are three tapered chimney stacks at each gable end. There is a later, lean-to porch addition to the rear elevation. The interior retains some simple cornicing.

Carpenter's Cottage was built between 1868 and 1899 within the Haddo Estate. It appears on the Ordnance Survey Second Edition map with an additional outshot building to the rear (north), a water pump to the east and a square garden enclosure to the west (revised 1899, published 1900). By the 1970s, the outshot building had been removed – replaced with a separate timber structure to a similar footprint (evident Ordnance Survey 1973). The rear porch extension had also been added by this date. The walled garden enclosure was removed in the later 20th or early 21st century.

Historical development:

Carpenter's Cottage was built between 1868 and 1899 within the Haddo Estate. It appears on the Ordnance Survey Second Edition map with an additional outshot building to the rear (north), a water pump to the east and a square garden enclosure to the west (revised 1899, published 1900). By the 1970s, the outshot building had been removed – replaced with a separate timber structure to a similar footprint (evident Ordnance Survey 1973). The rear porch extension had also been added by this date. The walled garden enclosure was removed in the later 20th or early 21st century.