Auchintoul is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Towerhouse. 1 related planning application.
Auchintoul
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-nave-gold
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Type
- Towerhouse
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Late 16th century towerhouse, with 1711-12, 3-storey, 4-bay, L-plan addition to E. Greatly altered, little of earlier house remains (see notes). Harled rubble with ashlar dressings.
E ELEVATION: 4-bay frontage; 4 windows to each floor, taller at principal floor, breaking eaves at 2nd floor in piended dormerheads.
N ELEVATION: enlarged doorway at ground floor, courtyard curtain wall adjoining to right with arched pend.
S ELEVATION: 2-bay, 2 windows to each floor, breaking eaves at 2nd floor as above.
W ELEVATION: lean-to addition at ground, 17th century stair tower with conical roof adjoining, to S, later gable end to right. Courtyard with former barmkin walls, and remains of earlier house incorporating cellar, spiral stair and fireplaces. Currently ruinous.
INTERIOR: gutted.
Currently without window fittings. Re-roofed with graded grey slates, ashlar coped skews, moulded skewputts, coped ashlar stacks.
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