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Latitude: 57.1742 / 57°10'26"N
Longitude: -2.7181 / 2°43'5"W
OS Eastings: 356678
OS Northings: 809486
OS Grid: NJ566094
Mapcode National: GBR WT.23KR
Mapcode Global: WH7MZ.6YX3
Plus Code: 9C9V57FJ+MQ
Entry Name: Craigievar Castle
Listing Name: Craigievar Castle
Listing Date: 16 April 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 341487
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9229
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200341487
Location: Leochel-Cushnie
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Huntly, Strathbogie and Howe of Alford
Parish: Leochel-Cushnie
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Museum Tower house Castle
5/7 storey towerhouse of stepped L-plan type. Elaborate
treatment of upper parts, 2-storey angle turrets,
re-entrant tower corbelled E. tower have balustraded flat
roofs and ogee capped stair turrets. Harled. Vaulted
ground floor, 1st floor hall groin vaulted with plaster
surface decoration and original screens passage. Moulded
plaster ceilings almost throughout. West wall of barmkin
remains, with remains of brewhouse (?) at N. end and conical
roofed tower at S. end. Begun by Mortimers early 17th
cent., completed by Wm. Forbes. 1626. Re-roofed 1826.
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