Rubislaw House

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Rubislaw House

A drawing of Rubislaw (or Rubieslaw) House taken from The Freedom Lands and Marches of Aberdeen 1319-1929 compiled by Donald B. Gunn (1929).

A caption accompanying the image states "A modern house, No. 50 Queen's Road, is erected on the site of this house. A small section of the walls of the old house is incorporated in the new house." (page 41).

On the estate of Rubislaw more generally, which was one of those feued from the Freedom Lands in 1551, Gunn writes the following:

"Rubislaw was feued to Alexander Rutherford at a feu duty of £20 Scots, and about 1687 passed into the hands of the noted Skene family, with whom it remained until 1886. Now largely merged into the West end of the City, it is divided amongst many owners, the main division being Kepplestone." (page 13).

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