Archaeology Notes

Event ID 737443

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO68SE 1.00 69984 80047

NO68SE 1.01 6940 8003 Old Castle

See also:

NO67NE 25.00 69750 79933 Stables

NO67NE 25.01 6971 7981 West Lodge

NO77NW 37 71376 79645 East Lodge

NO78SW 21 7105 8131 Mains of Drumtochty

A large, two-storyed castellated mansion, by James Gillespie Graham c.1810-12; large additions 1815-16, with John Smith of Aberdeen as builder. Further alterations probably also by Graham, 1839. It incorporates the old house of Woodstock.

Extensively rehabilitated after use as a prep school, Jenkins and Marr, 1974-5.

SDD/HBM List.

This castle is now a prep school. It incorporates as its W wing the house of Woodstock, for which the title deeds date back to 1755. There is no evidence nor local knowledge of an earlier building.

Visited by OS (NKB) 10 December 1969.

Drumtochty castle and associated buildings were photographed from the air on 30 January 1979; air photograph AAS/97/03/G5/14 and GRC/AAS site number NO78SW 20 refer.

Information from Aberdeenshire Archaeological Service, February 1997.

NMRS, MS/712/15.