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Leslie Castle

Leslie Castle is an L-plan 17th-century Scottish tower house in Aberdeenshire, built around 1661 as the seat of Clan Leslie and later restored in the late 20th century. The building comprises a tall central square tower with attached three-storey wings, corbelled round angle turrets and a garret, and today serves as a guesthouse after careful restoration.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

Its prime

1661

Today

Restored

As it stood in 1661

The shape it held in its prime.

A compact L-plan stone tower house of white-harled masonry dominated by a tall, rectangular central square tower rising above adjacent three-storey wings and a garret. Small rectangular and slit windows puncture plain walls; round corbelled corner turrets with conical slate caps project from the main block. Steep slate roofs cap the wings. The whole stands on a gentle grassy rise with a drystone field wall in the foreground; at prime the fabric and roofline are complete and intact.

Step inside

8 places to explore in 1661.

The record describes 8 distinct spots at Leslie Castle — including 5 interiors: base of the central square tower and entrance hall, spiral stair in the square tower with lamp column, vaulted basement and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Approach from the field wallGatehouse and drawbridgeBase of the central square tower and entrance hallSpiral stair in the square tower with lamp columnVaulted basementOriginal kitchen with large fireplaceSecond/third floor guest chambers and corridorGarret and turret rooftop vantage

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