What is recorded here

Lauriston Castle in Aberdeenshire is a layered ruin where a 14th century polygonal courtyard castle, a 17th century L-plan tower house and a Georgian country house all collided before war, neglect and demolition stripped much of it away. One original square corner tower still rises six storeys out of living rock above a deep gorge, marked by corbels and a Victorian campanile, while the derelict site was rebuilt in 1994 with a great hall, wheel staircase, doocot and viewing windows. The place has belonged since 1243 to families tied to the Chapel of St Laurence, including de Strivelyn or Stirling, the Straitons and later Sir James Falconer of Phesdo, giving its stones a long chain of human claim and loss.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Lauriston Castle as Castle (medieval), Country House (post Medieval), 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.

Lauriston Castle was built by the Seton family in the late 13th or early 14th century and is remembered as a significant medieval stronghold associated with the Earls of Seton, who played a notable role in Scottish history.

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