What is recorded here

Castle of Fiddes is a 16th century tower house in Aberdeenshire, built with an L-plan and defensive features such as shot-holes and machicolated projections. It may have been begun in the 1560s, with a stone dated 1603 and completion recorded in 1592. The circular stair-tower, angle turrets and vaulted basement kitchen suggest a residence designed for both domestic life and resistance. Now a farmhouse, it still carries the shape of a place where people watched the land, kept heat, and prepared for danger.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle of Fiddes 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.

The Castle of Fiddes was a medieval tower house, likely built in the 15th or 16th century by a local landholding family in the Scottish Borders region. It is remembered as part of the defensive and territorial landscape of the area during a period of frequent conflict between Scotland and England.

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