Tarradale House

Tarradale House was built in the 1680’s and was extended and altered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The Murchison Wing is a self contained addition that externally is unaltered from the eighteenth century. It is named to commemorate Sir Roderick Murchison, the eminent geologist (after whom the Murchison Falls are named) who was born in the house in 1792. His father Dr Kenneth Murchison purchased the estate a few years earlier after returning from India where he was physician to Warren Hastings.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Tarradale House belonged to Miss Amy Yule, a relative of Sir Roderick Murchison. She made extensive additions to the house, including the library tower and walled garden.

After she died the house was run by the Murchison of Tarradale Trust as a place of rest and private study for Highland scholars.

Subsequently the University of Aberdeen owned Tarradale House until it came back into private ownership and underwent extensive upgrading and improvement.