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Innes House

Dovecot(s) (post Medieval), Formal Garden (post Medieval), Sundial(s) (post Medieval), Tower House (17th Century)
Innes House
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Innes House stands in Moray as a seventeenth-century tower house surrounded by post-medieval formal gardens, sundials and dovcots. It is the kind of place where private ambition and public memory collide, because grandeur often belongs to people who never asked permission to be remembered. The stones still hold that much of the Innes name, even when the rooms have gone quiet.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Innes House as Dovecot(s) (post Medieval), Formal Garden (post Medieval), Sundial(s) (post Medieval), Tower 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.
Innes House was a 17th-century tower house in Scotland, associated with the Innes family, a historically prominent Lowland Scottish clan. It is remembered for its architectural significance and the surrounding post-medieval formal gardens and dovecot, reflecting the estate lifestyle of Scotland's landed gentry.

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