Pavilion, Northern Walled Garden, Dunbeath Castle

The pavilion is located within the northern walled garden of Dunbeath Castle. It dates from the late 19th century and was originally the laundry building. The structure is single-storey and five bays wide, constructed from rubble with tooled dressings. A central door is topped by a semi-circular fanlight, while paired round-headed windows are found in the outer bays, and paired windows are present in the east gable. Small multi-pane windows are used throughout, and round dormer vents are placed in the roof. The building is finished with corniced end stacks and a slate roof. The walled gardens, featuring coped rubble walls, flank the approach drive to the castle, with the southern garden containing reused stone carvings, including a 17th-century chimney piece. The castle itself is a late 16th/early 17th century structure, likely incorporating earlier work, and underwent significant alterations and additions around 1881 by D & J Bryce. The castle is harled with ashlar margins and dressings, and presents a symmetrical northeast front with two storeys and an attic, encompassing five bays and long, angle bartizans with bellcast conical roofs. A later 19th-century round-headed doorpiece features a cable-moulded hoodmould with a simulated knot flanked by shot holes, and at the first floor, bowed stair turrets project, adorned with decorative corbelled bases that culminate in square gabled caphouses. Regular fenestration is seen on the frontage, with small third-floor windows and three ornate, pedimented dormers breaking the wallhead. A Sinclair family crest, incorporating the Sinclair and Innes crests and motto "Via crucis, via lucis, patientia vinco," is set into a stair turret. A square tower rises at the northeast angle, featuring a corbelled and crenellated parapet extending above the ridge line. Extensive asymmetrical two-storey and attic additions are present on the southeast side, including an angle window, turret, pedimented dormers, and a first-floor oriel at the northeast. The building uses mainly 12-pane glazing, and features margined end, ridge, and wallhead stacks. A crenellated retaining terrace wall forms a U-shaped enclosure around the castle, outlining the peninsular site and incorporating occasional bartizans and round terminal piers.