The Warld's End

Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 14 Oct 2020

This elegant house at 11 Dalrymple Street caught my eye instantly, though it was difficult to photograph owing to 21st century vehicles parked in front; and the 'For sale/To let' sign does nothing to enhance it. It dates from the 18th century, though no-one seems to know exactly when it was built; some say about 1767. It belonged to 'Old Glenbucket' (John Gordon of Glenbuchat), whose estates were forfeited after the Jacobite Rising of 1746, and it (or possibly its predecessor, if it was built in 1767) was sold by public roup on 2 July 1766 to Charles Gordon, who paid just over £38 for it. It is a Category B Listed Building and is described in 'The Buildings of Scotland' as one of the finest Aberdeenshire houses of its date. In the 1850s the owner of the Warld's End seems to have been one Captain John Dalrymple, and after that until the middle of the 20th century it was owned by the company who ran Image It was apparently restored in 1980, but is again looking tired and neglected. The blue plaque by the door commemorates Thomas Blake Glover, 'The Scottish Samurai' (1838-1911) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Blake_Glover who was born just round the corner at 15 Commerce Street, in a house that was destroyed by a bomb during the Second World War. I read somewhere that Glover may have worked in the Warld's End, but that seems unlikely as his family left Fraserburgh when he was six years old.

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