What is recorded here

Midmar Castle is a Z-plan tower house built in 1565 for William Burnett of Leys, its diagonal wings cutting through the Aberdeenshire landscape like a knife through cloth. The Burnetts held it through Reformation storms, the Gordons took it after financial strain, and the Keiths let it decay before the Pearsons restored it with Victorian turrets. Stone that survived political knives now hosts wedding dances, which is either a tragedy or the best possible ending.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Midmar Castle as Sundial (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.

Midmar Castle is a 16th-century tower house located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and was likely built by the Gordon family, a powerful Highland clan with historical ties to the region. The castle is remembered for its strategic position and as an example of early Renaissance architecture in northern Scotland.

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