What is recorded here

Powrie Castle stands as a broken Z-plan of pink and buff sandstone, its western part collapsed while the north wing survives as a private home. Thomas Fothringham built the north range in 1604 after the Scrymgeours destroyed his earlier castle in 1492, creating a courtyard where two separate buildings now face each other. The east range, once called Lady Kinneard's quarters, has vanished entirely, leaving only the vaulted ground floor and small round tower of the north wing to mark where the family lived until at least 1684.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Powrie Castle as Fortified House (17th Century). 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.

Powrie Castle was a 17th-century fortified house, likely built by a local landholding family in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is remembered as an example of early modern defensive architecture in the north-east of Scotland.

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