Eccentric Mansion (Part of Seen from the Road).

I went to the NTS Collections Care Course the other day. It is held in the glorious Haddo House, Aberdeenshire but this isn't it.

As I drove up the road near Udny, I glimpsed through the bare trees a bristling, lumpy mass of turrets and towers. Victorian!(Edwardian).

This is Tillycorthie House, built in 1911-12 for James Rollo Duncan, a Bolivian tin magnate. The house is a very early use of concrete and also features a glassed in car courtyard and in the grounds an artificial lake and rooftop skating rink. The building was restored as a home a few years ago, after many sad years used as an agricultural store and is one of the most unusual buildings in Aberdeenshire.