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Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 564019
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Udny Castle, 16th century. Rising sublimely from a cocoon of greenery, the richly detailed upper works lighten the gravity
of this truly imposing, tall (four storeys and attic), harled tower. Particularly fine on south side where a corbelled and cannon-spouted wall-walk is slung between two twin angle-turrets. The large caphouse is corbie-stepped and the chimney coped. Many mural chambers including the pit. Large baronial mansion added, 1874-5, H M Wardrop; additions
demolished and tower restored, 1964-7, by G Bennet Mitchell (John Lamb).
Deserted, c.1775, some repairs, 1801, but of Wardrop's efforts only the good plasterwork on the hall vault survives.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
