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Walker Court, Cornhill Road, HUNTLY, AB54 7SD

Dating from ca. 1890, it became redundant as soon as 1900 when the UPs and the Frees merged. It was later a petrol station and then fell into dereliction, but it now (July 2017) being renovated, presumably as housing.

This interesting house was originally a manse, no doubt associated with the United Presbyterian kirk almost next door.

A terrace of solid traditional stone houses.

Aberchirder is typical of an 18th century planned village, with straight streets and the houses parallel to the street, their doors opening straight on to the pavement.

This was a United Presbyterian and later a United Free kirk, designed by Duncan Macmillan and built in 1893, replacing an earlier kirk on the same site. It is Category C Listed. See https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::::VIEWTYPE,VIEWREF:designation,LB19920 for details. Later it was a cinema and a petrol filling station. It is now being restored and converted for use as holiday accommodation. See https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/historic-aberdeenshire-church-could-become-8148050 Comparing this image with Image] you can see that at some point a large square door was inserted in the blank wall, and that this in turn has been replaced by two tall round-arched windows and three oculi to restore it to its original appearance. You can just about make out the traces of the original arches and oculi in the older image.

A large clump of snowdrops by the path through the woodland.

"When Alexander Gordon, the laird of Auchintoul, decided in 1764 to found a planned village he selected a spot at the south end of Auchintoul Moss. Here there was a fermtoun called Foggieloan (from two Gaelic words foidh (peat moss) and lòn (meadow), so Foggieloan means peaty or boggy meadow), so he gave his village the same name". www.foggieloan.co.uk

The west end of Main Street from the slope up to Clean Hill.

This Category C Listed house, now renamed Woodside Cottage, was built in the mid-19th century as the town's police station and jail. The Listed Building citation https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::::VIEWTYPE,VIEWREF:designation,LB19917 says that it has a "regrettable modern door and shutters". The shutters seem to have been removed, so perhaps the owner has also replaced the "regrettable door" with something more appropriate.