Beautiful Wardhouse is on my drive out to Leith Hall near Insch. I get very upset passing this as it has been a ruin since 1953 when it was sold and gutted. But the sun always seems to shine off the lovely classical front as it dominates the valley from a wooded hillside.
Why Horatio? Well, Admiral Gordon, who lived there, was the model for fictional seafaring hero Horatio Hornblower. The house also incorporates a reference to King Arthur who was supposed to have held court at the nearby sacred hill of Dunideer.
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So many amazing properties left to decay, very sad!
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