Old Photographs Haughton House Scotland

Old photograph of Haughton House by Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Haughton House was originally built in 1791 and was the home of the Farquharsons, who owned two thirds of the parish of Alford. They bought the house in the late 17th century. The original smaller Haughton House was by the River Don. The family added the main house, which wasn’t completed until 1854. The Farquharsons had six daughters, three of whom died in childhood. The other three never married and because this left no male heir, in 1925 Miss Elizabeth and Miss Ann Farquharson sold the house to a Mr C Spence, of the Forbes Arms Hotel in Bridge of Alford. From that time, the house was used for a number of different purposes. First the Spence family ran it as a shooting, fishing hotel, and it remained so until about 1959. At that point they sold it to a group of nuns, the Carmelite nuns of Oxford, England, who used it as a convent.

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