Welcome to Team Pilots Virtual Cache with in Aden Country Park.
The Cords take you to a post wher you can get good photographs of the house.
To claim this cache please either message or email us the anwser to this question
`What else is in the direction of "Old Deer" ?
A picture of the house or somewhere else in the park would be great.
The mansion house was originally granted to the Keith family in 1324, from whom it passed to Russells of Montcoffer. It was said to have been beautiful before it was ruined. Alexander Russell of Montcoffer (1723–98) bought the Aden estate in 1758 from James Ferguson of Kinmundy.
John Smith reconstructed the mansion in 1832 with "a magnificent balastrued west wing and Doric-columned, domed, projecting west bow".
Alexander Russell's great great grandson, Sidney Russell (1895-1965), was the last Russell laird to live at Aden. He sold the estate in 1937 and moved to Dorset. The Barony of Aden is still held by the Russell family.
During World war 2 it was used as an army barracks and it is said that the inside decoration was damaged and had lost its lustre once the army were finished with it. After the war the house was left to fall into ruin. As of 1990, only its outside walls remained standing.
The house is made of grey Granite
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