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Glenkindie House

A Category A Listed Building in Towie, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.2172 / 57°13'1"N

Longitude: -2.9575 / 2°57'27"W

OS Eastings: 342269

OS Northings: 814452

OS Grid: NJ422144

Mapcode National: GBR M91N.5X4

Mapcode Global: WH7MN.JVWM

Plus Code: 9C9V628R+VX

Entry Name: Glenkindie House

Listing Name: Glenkindie House

Listing Date: 16 April 1971

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 349646

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15945

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Glenkindie Castle

ID on this website: 200349646

Location: Towie

County: Aberdeenshire

Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside

Parish: Towie

Traditional County: Aberdeenshire

Tagged with: Castle Country house

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Description

U-plan with courtyard open to S;
conical roofed towers S.W. and S.E.
E. wing 2-storey and attic probably 16th cent., recast (?
1741; ALCD 1741 inscription on door and ALCD at skewput) with
quoined surrounds to windows, fine interior, elaborate scale
and platt stone stair with squat Ionic columns carrying heavy
friezeless entablatures. Matching W. wing with 1787
inscription (? if of earlier date). North parts 1900,
2-storey with 3-storey and caps house tower in manner of
Sydney Mitchell, replacing plain 2-storey 3-window central
portion of 1785.

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