Innes House (1)
Nigel Tranter is worth quoting up front, because he sums up this building perfectly:
At first glance, Innes House may seem as though it has strayed into this collection by mistake, so much more modern and palatial a mansion does it appear, and no fortified house. Yet to exclude it would be more of a mistake, for it quite definitely belongs to the period, the tradition, and class of building here described.
Much in advance of its time, and superficially ornate as it is, it nevertheless is basically similar to its contemporaries, being a 17th century house on the old L-plan, tall, with steep roofs and dormer windows, a square stair-tower rising in the re-entrant angle higher than the rest, to end in a flat platform roof which itself is reached by the usual stair-turret and caphouse.
Innes House (1)
Nigel Tranter is worth quoting up front, because he sums up this building perfectly:
At first glance, Innes House may seem as though it has strayed into this collection by mistake, so much more modern and palatial a mansion does it appear, and no fortified house. Yet to exclude it would be more of a mistake, for it quite definitely belongs to the period, the tradition, and class of building here described.
Much in advance of its time, and superficially ornate as it is, it nevertheless is basically similar to its contemporaries, being a 17th century house on the old L-plan, tall, with steep roofs and dormer windows, a square stair-tower rising in the re-entrant angle higher than the rest, to end in a flat platform roof which itself is reached by the usual stair-turret and caphouse.