What is recorded here

Old House of Carnousie stands in Aberdeenshire as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by wells whose age remains unknown. The structure still holds the shape of human defiance against weather and time, even if the names of its defenders have faded. Those wells may have drunk rain before the tower rose, giving water to hands now dust. The house does not need a legend to be strange because it is a chamber built for life, waiting for someone to remember the weight of that intention.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Old House of Carnousie as Tower House (medieval), Well(s) (period Unassigned). 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 Old House of Carnousie is a medieval tower house, likely built in the late 15th or early 16th century by a local landholding family, reflecting the period's trend of constructing fortified residences in rural Scotland. It is remembered as an example of early Scottish tower house architecture and as a site associated with the historical development of the Carnousie area.

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