Aboyne Castle (6)
The seemingly random placement of windows is very much more in keeping with the style of a 17th century tower-house, even if the windows are generally a little larger than they would have been back then.
There is a curious scallop in the lower half of the south wall of the main block. I don't know why it is there, but as mentioned previously, I do know there was a wing here, of the same age as the main block, so perhaps the scallop was a stair-well. It would also be my guess that the original doorway entered this wing, which adds weight to the stair-well theory (the two were practically always side-by-side in tower-houses).
When the 19th century box-like extension was added to the face of the old south wing, to match the new tower at the left-hand end of the mansion's façade, the outer face of the old wing was probably so much mutilated that it had to be demolished at the same time as the Victorian part in 1979.
Aboyne Castle (6)
The seemingly random placement of windows is very much more in keeping with the style of a 17th century tower-house, even if the windows are generally a little larger than they would have been back then.
There is a curious scallop in the lower half of the south wall of the main block. I don't know why it is there, but as mentioned previously, I do know there was a wing here, of the same age as the main block, so perhaps the scallop was a stair-well. It would also be my guess that the original doorway entered this wing, which adds weight to the stair-well theory (the two were practically always side-by-side in tower-houses).
When the 19th century box-like extension was added to the face of the old south wing, to match the new tower at the left-hand end of the mansion's façade, the outer face of the old wing was probably so much mutilated that it had to be demolished at the same time as the Victorian part in 1979.