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Latitude: 56.1633 / 56°9'47"N
Longitude: -3.5312 / 3°31'52"W
OS Eastings: 305005
OS Northings: 697789
OS Grid: NT050977
Mapcode National: GBR 1V.HQN9
Mapcode Global: WH5QB.QCP0
Plus Code: 9C8R5F79+8G
Entry Name: Aldie Castle
Listing Name: Aldie Castle
Listing Date: 5 October 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 344057
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB11469
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200344057
Location: Fossoway
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Kinross-shire
Parish: Fossoway
Traditional County: Perthshire
Tagged with: Tower house
Oblong tower-house (earlier 16th cent.) with extensions
built around a very small court. Tower has 3 storeys and a
garret. Corbie stepped, with corbelled turrets at angles.
Vaulted 1st storey with traces of an entresol floor.
Turnpike stair up from Hall in 2nd storey. In later 16th
cent. a 2-storeyed wing was added on S. side and from it
was built a 3-storeyed wing on E. Between the latter and the
tower a scale-and-platt stair and a new entrance (arms of
Mercers over) were built in 17th cent.
Former seat of the Mercers who acquired Addie from the
Murrays of Tullibardine (PERTHSHIRE) c. 1350 through
marriage. Passed eventually to Marquess of Lansdowne,
Restored by I.G. Lindsay.
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