
What is recorded here
Kinnettles Castle is a mid-19th century Scottish Baronial building in Angus, now a hotel. James Paterson built the current structure in 1864 after buying the estate, replacing older manor houses with a grand statement of wealth. The central tower may have copied Ackergill Tower near Wick, giving the local house a distant Caithness shadow. Later owners kept changing the place, but the bold castle form remains the clearest mark of Paterson’s ambition.
Kinnettles Castle is shown as a castle on the public map of Angus. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
Kinnettles Castle was built in the 16th century by the Keith family, a prominent noble family in the region. It is remembered as a historic stronghold associated with the Earls of Kintore and as an example of later medieval tower house architecture in Scotland.
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Places near here
Kinnettles HouseCountry House (period Unassigned) · 5 yd
Kinnettles War MemorialMemorial · 635 yd
North Mains of KinnettlesFarmhouse (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned) · 678 yd
Kinnettles MillElectricity Production Site (modern), Grain Mill (18th Century) - (19th Century), Mill (18th Century), Threshing Mill (post Medieval) · 682 yd
Homestead MoatArchaeological place · 1026 yd
Kincaldrum HillMountain / peak · 1.7 mi
ThorntonCastle (medieval)(possible) · 1.9 mi
Gallows TreeBroadleaf Tree, exact kind not recorded · 2.3 mi
Balmashanner War MemorialMonument · 2.4 mi
Fothringham HillMountain / peak · 2.5 mi
St Margaret's InchHeadland · 2.5 mi
Balmashanner HillViewpoint · 2.5 miOther information
Photo: Scott Cormie · CC BY-SA 2.0