What is recorded here
Allardice Castle stands in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, a medieval tower house built to keep watch over living land. It is not a display cabinet or a dead monument; it is a place where people once breathed, decided and endured. Much of its history has faded, but the stones still belong to the region and remain subject to local law.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Allardice Castle as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Allardice Castle is a medieval tower house located in Scotland, likely built during the late 15th or early 16th century by a local landholding family, though specific builders or occupants are not well documented. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and domestic architecture typical of the Scottish Borders during the medieval period.
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Places near here
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Inverbervie, Old Bervie BridgeRoad Bridge (period Unassigned) · 1.1 mi
Lewis Grassic Gibbon MemorialMemorial · 1.1 mi
PeattieNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 1.1 mi
Inverbervie War MemorialMemorial · 1.1 mi
Inverbervie, King Street, Parish Church, Entrance GatesGate (period Unassigned), Gate Pier(s) (period Unassigned) · 1.1 mi
Criminal's ClumpWood · 1.4 mi
Inverbervie, Hallgreen CastleTower House (medieval) · 1.4 mi
Bervie BayBay · 1.5 mi
Arbuthnott HouseCountry House (18th Century) (1754), Motte (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval) · 1.6 mi
Banff WoodForest · 2.0 mi