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Remains of a castle. It was a plain, rectangular tower-house with appended courtyard buildings, constructed of random masonry bonded with lime mortar. There is a narrow loop-hole with internal splay near the centre of each wall, but no sign of a doorway. This could have been in the southeast corner which has completely collapsed, or the entrance could have been on the first floor which had now gone. The turf-covered foundations, 1.2m -1.6m thick, of the west and south sides of the courtyard are clear, but much of the plan of the internal buildings is obscured by the dumping of field stones. There is no trace of outworks to the east, but the west wall of the courtyard appears to have been built along the inner tip of a ditch about 4m wide, now poorly defined and choked with cleared stones. About midway along it is a causeway corresponding to a break in the wall. The castle is said to have been a hunting seat of the Bishops of Aberdeen in the 14th century.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)