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Late 19th century square-plan folly tower, probably designed by George Truefitt. It is 3-storey with basement, single bay, tower. It is built of ladder-snecked pink and grey granite above dark grey granite at ground floor level, with rough-faced long and short dressings finely finished to the margins. It has a battered base course, projecting cills, and a corbelled and flat-coped parapet. The surrounding boundary walls are constructed of rough-faced polychrome granite with rough-faced coping to north and west of the tower, and steps to bowed lookout to northeast. There are rough-faced polychrome granite gatepiers to the west, corniced with pyramidal caps, with circular inset panels with tooled thistle, shamrock, rose motifs and the monogram WCB (William Cunliffe Brooks). The gatepier to the far west, set a in granite coped wall, features a tooled panel to north which reads (partial worn): 'BRIDGE O'ESS miles to Bridge of ABOYNE 1_, DINNET 3_, BALLATER 9_'. The small garden has a semi-circular lookout contiguous with the entrance gates.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)