What is recorded here

Crombie Castle is a medieval tower house in Aberdeenshire, built around 1542 for John Innes of Crombie. It has an L-shaped plan, corner bartizans, and later additions from 1570 to 1910. The castle may have served as a family home, a defensible residence, or a local seat of power. Its shape and dates suggest a place where domestic life and protection were joined in one stone structure.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Crombie Castle as 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.

Crombie Castle was a medieval tower house, likely built in the late 15th or early 16th century by a local landholding family, though specific builders or occupants are not well documented. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and residential architecture typical of Scotland's Lowland regions during the medieval period.

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