What is recorded here

Durris House stands in Aberdeenshire as a small three-storey tower with an angle turret and stair tower, carrying medieval roots beneath a seventeenth-century shape. Fraser families held the estate from the thirteenth century before marriage moved it toward Peterborough, while Montrose burned the house at the same time as Castle Fraser. Cosmo Innes was born there, and the house later became flats, but the vaulted basement still lies below ground like a forgotten foundation for every change above it.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Durris House as Country House (17th Century), 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.

Durris House was built in the 17th century as a country house, standing on the site of an earlier medieval tower house. It is remembered as part of Scotland's historic country house heritage, reflecting the evolution of noble and gentry residences in the region.

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