Cairness, an estate, with a mansion and a hamlet, in Lonmay parish, NE Aberdeenshire. The mansion, on the brow of a gentle acclivity, 2½ miles NE of Lonmay station, was built in 1791-99, after designs by Jas. Playfair, at a cost of £25,000; is a handsome edifice in the Grecian style, with tetrastyle Ionic portico; and has fine pleasure-grounds: its owner, Jas. W. Gordon, Esq. (b. 1824, suc. 1841), holds 4100 acres in the shire, valued at £3476 per annum. The hamlet has a post office under Aberdeen.
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