Aiket Castle

Aiket Castle is a tower house with fragments dating from the late 15th century to the 18th century, which was rebuilt from ruins by Robert Clow between 1976 and 1979. The building is three storeys high with an attic and features a three-bay rectangular plan. The structure has crowstepped gables, a pedimented doorpiece, gabled dormers, and a bartizan at the west corner. A round stair turret projects from the first floor to the southeast. To the northwest, there is an open courtyard enclosed by a single storey and attic cottage to the northeast and a barmkin wall with an arched entrance. The first floor is constructed of sandstone and whinstone rubble, while the upper levels are built with Kennet brick, finished with white harling and sandstone ashlar dressings. The windows have raised ashlar margins, and there is a timber-boarded, studded door in a roll-moulded, pedimented 18th-century doorpiece at the centre of the northwest elevation, along with fairly regular fenestration across the bays. The windows predominantly feature 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames, and the roof is covered with graded grey Forfar sandstone roofing stones.

Inside, there is a stone staircase that rises from the entrance hall. The kitchen, dating from around 1600, has a vaulted ceiling, a bread oven, and a 17th-century arched fireplace. To the east of the hall is a 15th-century vaulted dining room, which was formerly a store. The first floor features a former Great Hall fireplace with 15th-century roll-moulded jambs and semi-octagonal capitals. There are 18th-century sandstone chimneypieces in the sitting room on the first floor and in the bedroom on the second floor, along with 17th or 18th-century moulded stonework in the windows and other rooms.

The site also includes mill lades and the former Aiket Corn Mill, which feature 18th and 19th-century mill lades and associated stonework. There are probably 18th-century lade channels to the west of the mill and a 19th-century terracotta pipeline nearby, with channels edged in stone adjacent to the mill building. The former corn mill is an L-plan structure made of random rubble and was renovated and modernised between 2003 and 2004.

Additionally, there is an elliptical-arched bridge over the Glazert Burn, constructed of sandstone rubble with a dressed sandstone arch and parapet coping.