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Castle/house comprising an L-plan parapeted towerhouse of three storeys and garret extended to north and east probably in the 17th Century by addition of a gabled block with circular tower at the southeast angle. A stair turret projects above a squinch on elaborate label-moulded corbelling in the re-entrant. Corbelling supports a high crenellated parapet. The castle was altered and repaired in the 19th Century with a mansion being added in which the towerhouse formed the southwest angle of the modern mansion. Westhall Estate originally belonged to the Diocese of Aberdeen from the 13th Century, before it passed to the Gordons. Purchased in 1681 by the Vicar of Elgin, it later passed to the Dalrymple-Home Elphinstones and subsequently the Leiths, after which it became a school for students of farming. See NJ62NE0132 for surrounding designed landscape.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)