Delgatie Castle

Delgatie Castle is a tower house built between 1570 and 1579, designed in an L-shape measuring 69 feet by 41 feet. The main section has four storeys, including a dungeon mezzanine on the ground floor, and an attic, while the wing features five storeys and a cape-house. The exterior is harled, and the wing retains a corbelled ashlar parapet with bartizans. The upper part of the main section has crow-stepped gables, likely due to a late change in design or repairs made in 1597 after damage in 1594.

Inside, the main section includes an entrance passage leading to a groin-vaulted vestibule at the original entrance on the east side. The main area is vaulted in two compartments, with a hall to the south and a guard room and dungeon above to the north. A circular turnpike stair is located at the center of the south side, while the wing is vaulted in one compartment. On the first floor, there is a rib-vaulted solar in the wing, and the hall has been remodelled as a ballroom around 1830, with the North Drawing Room also dating to that period. The Tulip Room and Painted Room on the second and third floors of the wing feature painted ceilings from 1597, although the Tulip Room retains only its beams.

The northern re-entrant angle was infilled at the ground and first floors in the 18th century, with further additions on the second and third floors in the 19th century. A baronial south porch and a ballroom bay window were added around 1850, possibly by architects A & W Reid.

The wings feature semi-elliptical rusticated arches, likely from around 1768, which were originally open as in-and-out gates for the courtyard but have since been removed. These were later extended into a fanciful symmetrical Gothic composition in the late 18th century, consisting of two single-storey wings with three ogee-headed windows topped with cross finials. The dining room, also known as 'The Chapel,' is located in the west wing, while the kitchen is in the east wing. Short screen walls with buttresses, pinnacles, and a gablet, along with a gothic arch, complete the composition. The west screen features a dummy doocot and is extended by a concave-gabled screen wall that incorporates late medieval tomb recesses and other fragments.

Around 1850, the dining room's south frontage was rebuilt as a three-window bow, the kitchen wing was raised to two storeys with a battlemented parapet, and an addition was built behind the east screen wall, possibly at a later date.