Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 562909
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Leith Hall, from 1650. The complete château effect came late, the quadrangular plan being finally achieved only in 1868 with the building of the west wing, which visitors see on their approach. The main elements are the north wing, a severe
rectangular block of 1650; the east wing of 1756 and, containing the fine principal rooms, the south wing, built around 1797 by General Alexander Leith-Hay. These apartments, as normal, on the first floor, are lit by flushpedimented
Venetian windows. Drum towers date from 1868.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
