Archaeology Notes

Event ID 854904

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO14SW 13.00 14053 41795

(NO 1405 4170) Tower of Lethendy (NR)

OS 6" map (1959).

NO14SW 13.01 NO 1405 4170 Pictish Cross-slab

NO14SW 13.02 NO 14514 41948 East Lodge

NO14SW 13.03 NO 14038 41880 West Lodge

NO14SW 13.04 NO c. 1405 4165 Sundial

The Tower of Lethendy is a tower of the L-plan, of three storeys and a garret, dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, on to which a modern mansion has been grafted. The main features of the early house survive, although it has suffered some alterations and some of its walls have been strengthened by large buttresses.

The doorway on the E front, now covered by modern building, once possessed a panel bearing the arms of Heron and reputedly the date 1678.

N Tranter 1963; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1889