Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 563963
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/563963
Castle of Esslemont, 15th century, burnt 1493, new tower in south-east angle, 1570-90. The original L-plan tower was demolished and replaced by a five-sided artillery castle, the south-eastern angle-tower later being used as the base for the slighter, two-storey-and-attic house on a stepped L-plan, corbelled to square; now much robbed. (Passed to Errolls, 1625, bought by Gordons, 1728, abandoned 1769.)
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk