A George Washington Wilson photograph showing Aruacarias (monkey puzzle trees) outside what is likely South Stocket Cottage.

This building was located about 100 metres to the west of the junction of Moray Place and South Stock Road, on the north side of the latter. The upper part of South Stocket Road, on which this building stood, was also known as High South Stocket Road.

As Aberdeen developed to the west, the street name of South Stocket Road was progressively replaced by Beechgrove Terrace, from Rosemount Place to Fountainhall Road, and, to the west of that, by King's Gate.

The beginning of this development and the renaming of the street is detailed in the article 'Extension of the city' in the Aberdeen Weekly Journal of 25th April 1877, page 4.

See also G. M. Fraser's book Aberdeen Street Names (1911) for further discussion of streets named in reference to the Stocket Forest.

This photograph likely dates from the latter half of the 19th century. Since this time, South Stocket Cottage has been demolished. The 25 inch to a mile Ordnance Survey map sheet revised to 1923/24 indicates that the building stood until at least then.

Ordnance Survey maps show a house initially called Kingsgate having been built around 60 metres to the north west of this cottage between roughly 1867 and 1899. By the 1920s mapping, this house was named Kingshill and it remains under this name at 160 King's Gate at the time of writing in 2024.

This image looks west across the southern elevation of South Stocket Cottage.

Location

South Stocket

Keyword

Buildings, Cottages

Photographer

George Washington Wilson