The Pheasantry, Haddo Estate

The Pheasantry, located on the Haddo Estate, was built in 1884. It is a long, single-storey building with a part basement, featuring a rectangular plan and classical detailing. The structure has 29 bays and is constructed from polychrome brick with granite cills, base, and band courses, and round-headed openings.

On the southwest elevation, the principal facade has a gabled bay that breaks the eaves at the center, which includes a boarded timber door and a two-part fanlight, flanked by narrow lights and a louvered semicircular opening in the gable head. Behind this is a boarded timber polygonal dovecote with a moulded alighting ledge, tiny hoodmoulded and pilastered openings (which are blocked), a mutulated cornice, and a swept bellcast roof topped with a weathervane finial. The bays to the right of the center are arranged in a 1-2-2-2-2-2-2-1 pattern, featuring a door on the left, a window on the right, and alternating paired windows and doors in between. There is a smaller dovecote detailed similarly between bays 26 and 27, and a small triangular ventilator between bays 20 and 21. The bays to the left of the center mirror this arrangement, but bays 10 and 14 have been converted to windows.

The northeast elevation has similar detailing to the southwest but features fewer openings, with a gabled center bay and seven flanking bays. The southeast elevation includes a single gabled bay with a raised basement, a blocked door to the right, and a wider segmental-headed arch to the left, flanked by dwarf walls with steps leading up to the ground level beyond. There is a blank bay at ground level with a louvered semicircular opening in the gable head. The northwest elevation features a single gabled bay with a louvered semicircular opening in the gable head.

The windows are timber sash and case with a 4- and 6-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and has scallop-edged lead at the ridge. There are coped brick stacks with cans, deeply overhanging eaves, and cast-iron downpipes with decorative fixings.