Sandford Lodge

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Sandford Lodge
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Sandford Lodge in 2008
Sandford Lodge
General information
Architectural style Georgian
Town or city Peterhead
CountryScotland
Coordinates 57°28′50″N1°47′42″W / 57.480681°N 1.794863°W / 57.480681; -1.794863 Coordinates: 57°28′50″N1°47′42″W / 57.480681°N 1.794863°W / 57.480681; -1.794863
Completedc. 1800
Technical details
Floor count3 (including basement)

Sandford Lodge is a Category B listed building in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [1] A former farmhouse, described by Charles McKean as a "miniature mansion house", [2] it was built around 1800; today, only the shell of the building remains, after a fire in the early hours of 8 August 2015. [3]

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James Skelton (1799–1882), [4] sheriff substitute of Peterhead and possibly the original owner, [5] was resident at the lodge in 1856. [6] His wife was Margaret Marjory (née Kinnear) (1805–1878). [7] Their only daughter, Janet Georgina (1832–1860), [8] wed James Mitchell, minister of Peterhead's Deer Church, at the lodge on 7 September 1859, [9] but she died the following year, aged 27. Their son was Sir John Skelton. [5]

William Aiton lived there in 1873. [10] He was one of the original contractors for the construction of the Suez Canal, and was also contracted for the Maybole and Girvan Railway. In April and May 1865 he worked with Thomas Inglis of Glasgow on a survey of the Great Pyramid of Giza. [11] He died in February 1893, being "upwards of 70 years of age". [12]

In the early 19th century, the lodge was the home of Private Robert Willox, of the Gordon Highlanders. He died as a prisoner of war in the Second World War on 7 June 1943, aged 25, after suffering from beriberi, and was buried in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. He lived at the lodge with his parents, James and Margaret, of whom he was one of ten children. [13] [14] His parents are buried in Longside Cemetery, Longside, near Peterhead.

G. Anderson lived at the lodge in the late 19th century. [15]

James Sutherland (1851–1933) later ran his "great transport business in Peterhead" from the property. The business was a bus operator. [16] "During his tenancy of the Sandford farm he had a grieve called Sandy Christie, and the foreman's name was Fordyce," wrote David Toulmin. [17]

Peterhead Power Station was built adjacent to the property in 1978. [18]

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References

  1. ↑ Sandford Lodge – British Listed Buildings
  2. ↑ McKean, Charles (1990). Banff & Buchan: An Illustrated Architectural Guide. Mainstream Publications Ltd. p. 163. ISBN   185158-231-2.
  3. ↑ "Uncertain future for historic Peterhead lodge on former carbon capture site" – Press and Journal , 22 January 2016
  4. ↑ James Skelton – Find a Grave
  5. 1 2 Six Buchan Villages: Re-visited, Margaret Aitken (2004), p. 135 ISBN   9781840170511
  6. ↑ The London Gazette : The Appointed Organ for All Announcements of the Executive (1856), p. 835
  7. ↑ Margaret Marjory Skelton – Find a Grave
  8. ↑ Janet Georgina Mitchell – Find a Grave
  9. ↑ The Solicitors' Journal & Reporter , 24 September 1859, p. 876
  10. ↑ Scotland: Owners of Lands and Heritages 17 & 18 Vict., Cap. 91. 1872-73 (1874), p. 1
  11. ↑ Life and Work at the Great Pyramid During the Months of January, February, March, and April, A.D. 1865. Volume 2 , Charles Piazzi Smyth (1867), pp.299-308
  12. ↑ The Irish Builder , 1 March 1893, p. 61
  13. ↑ Private Robert William Willox – Find a Grave
  14. ↑ The Herald Years, Jack Webster (1996) ISBN   9781845029241
  15. ↑ Proceedings, Agricultural Research Association, Aberdeen (1895), p. 61
  16. ↑ "A Text-book Transport Organization" – Commercial Motor , 9 February 1951
  17. ↑ A Chiel Among Them: A Scots Miscellany, David Toulmin (1982) ISBN   9780907301066
  18. ↑ McKean, Charles (1990). Banff & Buchan: An Illustrated Architectural Guide. Mainstream Publications Ltd. p. 164. ISBN   185158-231-2.
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