Aberdeenshire HER - NO59NW0089 - ABOYNE CASTLE

Main Details

Primary ReferenceNO59NW0089
NameABOYNE CASTLE
NMRS Card No.NO59NW5
NMRS Numlink118923
Site Form Standing Structure
Site Condition Complete 2
Details Walled garden and garden buildings, still in use, built in the earlier 19th century and associated with Aboyne Castle (NO59NW0005). It is a rectangular-plan granite rubble walled garden with flat coping. The Garden House to the north-west has a base course, projecting cills, eaves course, a boarded timber door with a letterbox fanlight to the west elevation, irreguarlly placed timber sash and case windows and a graded grey slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods. To the south-west of the Garden House is The Wee House that is within the western wall of the garden. It is square-plan with a glazed door with timber windows and a piended roof with cast-iron rainwater goods.
Last Update09/05/2018

National Grid Reference: NO 5217 9927


Easting: 352630, Northing: 799550

CompilerNCA
Date of Compilation01/02/2017

Event Details


Excavations and Surveys


Artefact and Ecofact


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Monument Types

Monument Type 1Monument Type 2Monument Type 3OrderProbability
GARDENSWALLED A100
HOUSESGARDEN B100

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National Status

National Status
Listed Building, Category C

Regional Status


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Location

Historic Administrative Area Name Aboyne and Glentanar
Positional Accuracy Centred at
Buffer Zone 1-5m
Buffer Type Bespoke
Capture Scale 1:501 - 1:1250
Spatial Feature Type Polygon: Known Site Extent

Environment

Constraints Privately owned, access by arrangement - easy access.
Altitude130
Geology 
Topography Gentle slope
Aspect 1SE
Aspect 2 Open
Current Land Use Horticulture
Vegetation
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Period Details

PeriodOrderProbabilityRadiocarbon DatesDate BuiltDate of DestructionDate of Loss
19th Century B100    
Post-Medieval (from 1560 AD) A100    

Period Notes

Period Notes Listed 30/03/2000

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Maritime Archaeology

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