Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 563965
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Arnage Castle, late 16th century, Thomas Leper; partly remodelled (gables) late 17th/early 18th century. The pinned rubble, now so laboriously exposed, was once decently harled to emphasise the fine details such as the triple Leper shot-holes, so similar to Tolquhon and Schivas. Other probable Leper work includes the original door, now blocked, in the south-east re-entrant, the vaulted ground floor and the engaging double stair-turrets in the angles. Matthews' 1860
baronial entrance is more institutional than domestic; his addition on south, remodelling of north-east wing and infilling of north reentrant are of varying success: addition to Matthews' wing, 1964, D C Stewart.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
