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Towie Barclay Castle today

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Towie Barclay Castle

Towie Barclay Castle is a late-16th-century tower house in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, built by Clan Barclay in 1593 and designated a Category A listed building. The present building incorporates sixteenth-century masonry at the lower level with upper floors reconstructed during a 20th-century restoration. It sits within gardened grounds south-south-east of Turriff.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

Its prime

1593

Today

Restored

As it stood in 1593

The shape it held in its prime.

A compact quadrangular keep of pink-harled rubble masonry rising two-to-three storeys to a flat crenellated parapet, with small round corner turrets capped by conical slate roofs. Steep slate roof sections with dormer windows and tall chimneys sit behind the parapet; a central flagpole rises from the roofline. The entrance is a small arched doorway at ground level set in a plain stone facade, with a low stone garden wall and trees close around the building.

Step inside

6 places to explore in 1593.

The record describes 6 distinct spots at Towie Barclay Castle — including 1 interior: vaulted main hall (interior). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Front approach and garden with armillary sphereMain ground-floor entrance doorwayCorner round turret and wallheadRoofline with dormers and chimneysCrenellated parapet and machicolation-like corbelsVaulted main hall (interior)

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