Terpersie Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Castle. 1 related planning application.

Terpersie Castle

WRENN ID: empty-barrel-vale
Grade: A
Local Planning Authority: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 16 April 1971
Type: Castle
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Formerly dated 1561. Burned 1665 and restored, deserted 1885

and now ruinous. Z-plan (earliest, or second earliest, known)

3-storey rubble-built with dormer heads, ground floor

unvaulted, 28' x 18' with 17' diameter circular towers

(polygonal internally) with corbelled stair turrets in angles

that at S.E. with 'G' (for Gordon) in lowest corbel. Later

S.E. wing shown in Giles and C. & D. Arch. now totally

demolished. Loophole with boar's head top and 1561 datestone

now at Knockospock House: moat completely drained.

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