Duff House

Duff House

Location within Scotland
Location	Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Website	https://www.nationalgalleries.org/visit/duff-house

Duff House mausoleum

Duff House is a Georgian estate house in Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Now in the care of Historic Environment Scotland, it is part of the National Galleries of Scotland and is a Category A listed building.^[1]

The house is built of ashlar in three storeys to a square plan (9-bay x 8-bay) on a raised basement with advanced corner towers.

The house and the associated Fife gates, walled garden, Collie lodge, mausoleum, ice house, Bridge Gates House and the Eagles Gate lodge are designated as Category A listed group of buildings.

History[]

Duff House was designed by William Adam and built between 1735 and 1740 for William Duff of Braco. It was originally intended to have flanking pavilions linked by colonnaded quadrants but these were never completed. David Bryce Jr was later commissioned to provide a three-storey pavilion and corridor block, but this was damaged by a bomb in 1941 and subsequently demolished.

The Earls of Fife moved out of Duff House in 1903, gifting the property to Banff Burgh in 1906. Since then Duff House has been in turn a palm court hotel, a sanatorium, a prisoner of war camp and a barracks but still sits in a designed landscape, albeit with the addition of a golf course. Since 1995 it has been part of the National Galleries of Scotland.

References[]

^ Historic Environment Scotland. "DUFF HOUSE (LB21985)". Retrieved 16 April 2019.

External links[]

Duff House website

v t Museums and art galleries of Scotland
National Museums of Scotland	National Museum of Scotland National Museum of Flight National Museum of Rural Life National Museums Collection Centre National War Museum
National Galleries of Scotland	Modern Two Royal Scottish Academy Building Scottish National Gallery Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Art galleries and collections	Aberdeen Art Gallery Broughton Gallery Burrell Collection City Art Centre Dick Institute Dundee Contemporary Arts Fruitmarket Gallery Gallery of Modern Art Georgian House Gracefield Arts Centre Groam House Museum Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery Inverness Museum and Art Gallery Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Kirkcaldy Galleries Meffan Institute McLean Museum McLellan Galleries McManus Galleries Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum Montrose Museum Perth Museum and Art Gallery Pier Arts Centre Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum Queen's Gallery Talbot Rice Gallery Tramway V&A Dundee
History	Alloa Tower Broughty Castle Museum David Livingstone Centre Museum of Childhood Provand's Lordship Surgeons' Hall Writers' Museum
Local history	Aberdeenshire Farming Museum Angus Folk Museum Biggar Museum Trust Campbeltown Heritage Centre Clydebank Museum Dumfries Museum Fife Folk Museum Gairloch Museum Gladstone's Land Glenesk Folk Museum Highland Folk Museum Highland Museum of Childhood Inveraray Jail John Knox House King's Museum Meffan Institute Montrose Museum Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume Museum of Edinburgh Museum of the University of St Andrews New Lanark Newhaven Heritage Museum North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre Old Haa Museum The Orkney Museum People's Palace People's Story Museum Pier House Museum Provost Skene's House Scotland Street School Museum Shetland Museum Signal Tower Museum Skye Museum of Island Life St Andrews Museum Stewartry Museum Stonehaven Tolbooth Stromness Museum Tain & District Museum The Tolbooth, Aberdeen
Maritime	Aberdeen Maritime Museum Discovery Point HMS Unicorn HMY Britannia Museum of Scottish Lighthouses Scottish Fisheries Museum Scottish Maritime Museum Ship Space
Military and war	Bannockburn Visitor Centre Black Watch Museum The Cameronians Museum John Paul Jones Cottage Museum Gordon Highlanders Museum Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre
Natural history	D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum Dick Institute George Waterston Memorial Centre and Museum Marischal Museum McManus Galleries
Religion	Blairs Museum Dunblane Museum Scalan St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
Science and industry	Barry Mill Mills Observatory Museum of the University of St Andrews Museum on the Mound New Lanark Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum Robert Smail's Printing Works Scotland’s Jute Museum @ Verdant Works Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life
Sport	The R&A World Golf Museum Scottish Football Museum
Transport	Dundee Museum of Transport Glasgow Museum of Transport - (now the Riverside Museum) Grampian Transport Museum Myreton Motor Museum Scottish Industrial Railway Centre Museum of Scottish Railways Scottish Vintage Bus Museum

v t Settlements and places of interest in Banff and Buchan, Aberdeenshire
Primary settlements	Aberchirder Banff Fraserburgh Gardenstown Inverallochy and Cairnbulg Macduff Portsoy Rosehearty Sandhaven Whitehills
Other settlements	Boyndie Broadsea Cornhill Cortes Crovie Crudie Fordyce Gordonstown King Edward Memsie Netherbrae New Aberdour New Byth Pennan Rathen Sandend Tyrie
Places of interest	Duff House Findlater Castle Kinnaird Head Lighthouse House of Memsie Memsie Cairn

Coordinates: 57°39′31″N 2°31′10″W / 57.65861°N 2.51944°W / 57.65861; -2.51944