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South Entrance to Cluny Castle from Ordhead to Kemnay road.
Photograph by Stanley Howe. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
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CLUNY CASTLE FACTS
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Location
near Sauchen, Aberdeenshire
Description
Cluny Castle was built in 1604. Major extensions and renovations in the 19th century turned in into a large mansion in the castellated style designed by John Smith. This extract from a paper in 1832 gives an idea of the extent of the renovations …"The house that John Smith designed for Colonel Gordon was considerably more ambitious than either of the two proceeding schemes for enlargement. Like them its starting point was the old Z castle, and indeed Smith preserved to a certain extent the fantastic profile of the 1604 building so that even today Cluny is one of the oddest houses in the north-east, with the most extraordinary array of turrets and towers. His scheme involved building a replica of the old tower someway to the east of its predecessor and linking the two by a central block."
Architecture
The original castle was a Z-plan, with a central block with diagonally placed round towers. The accommodation was provided on four floors in the central block and NW tower, and on five floors in the SE tower. Above this was a garret floor and a smaller square tower rising above the main stair, at the junction of the NW tower with the main block.
Date
1604
Other Castles in the Area
Balfluig Castle
Birse Castle
Castle Fraser
Craigievar Castle
Crathes Castle
Drum Castle
Dumbarton Castle
Dunnottar Castle
Forbes Castle
Fyvie Castle
Glenbuchat Castle
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