Lickleyhead Castle
| Lickleyhead Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | plastered | |
| Place: | Auchleven | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 18 '7.6 " N , 2 ° 37' 13.6" W | |
| Height: | 174 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Lickleyhead Castle is a tower house with an L-shaped floor plan on the banks of Gadie Burn , just south of the village Auchleven in the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire . The well restored building dates from around 1600.
The Tower House is also called Licklihead Castle or Licklyhead Castle .
history
The property originally belonged to the Leslie clan , but William Leith , who was twice Provost of Aberdeen , bought it from George Leslie in the 13th century . It remained in the Leith family until Patrick Leith sold it in 1625 to William Forbes of Leslie , who presumably had the main part of the building restored, presumably with the help of John Bell of Aberdeen .
While he was living in the Tower House, William Forbes, the illegitimate son of John Forbes , accidentally shot his hand off. It was thought that this was his just punishment for the murder of Alexander Irvine , who was allegedly a supporter of the Marquess of Montrose . After the Stuart Restoration , he was executed for this crime.
From the end of the 17th century the castle belonged to the Hays for a while .
Patrick Duff of Craigston bought the castle in 1723. He and his son had a new wing added to Lickleyhead Castle and redesigned the interior of the castle. In the 1820s, Henry Lumsden had additional extensions added after he had bought the property from the Ogilvy-Maitland family.
The castle was the seat of the Lairds of Premney .
Don Guillermo de Landa y Escandon , the governor of Mexico City , bought the castle in 1922 for his daughter Maria Luiz . Actress Rose Leslie lived at Lickleyhead Castle at a young age.
architecture
The main block of the castle lies in an east-west direction, the attached wing forms two facades as it protrudes to the south. On the main block there are protruding, two-story tourelles on the north facade; the upper floors have oval windows. A strongly protruding, semicircular stair tower, the cross-section of which becomes square towards the top, rises in the western interior corner. It provides access to the guard room in the attached wing. The castle is equipped with stepped gables . It is plastered with Harl and has a slate roof .
The tower has three full storeys, an attic and an attic. There are no loopholes , but 12 holes. There are decorated gables .
The ground floor has vaulted ceilings and houses the kitchen and storage cellar. The rooms, which are lit with slit-like windows, are accessed through the entrance in the southern interior corner of the building. A tapering, straight staircase gives access to the first floor; the other floors can be reached via the stairs in the Tourelle. There is a beautiful knight's hall .
Historic Scotland has listed Lickleyhead Castle as a Category A Historic Building.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Maurice Lindsay: The Castles of Scotland . Constable, 1986. ISBN 0-09-473430-5 . P. 333.
- ↑ Entry on Lickleyhead Castle in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ^ A b Martin Coventry: The Castles of Scotland . Goblinshead, 1997. ISBN 1-899874-10-0 . P. 239.
- ↑ a b c Lickleyhead Castle . In: British Listed Buildings . Retrieved November 9, 2017.
- ↑ Lickleyhead Castle . In: Gazetteer for Scotland . Retrieved November 9, 2017.
- ↑ Toby McDonald: Downton Abbey maid Rose Leslie grew up a Scottish castle Lady . In: Daily Record . October 12, 2011. Retrieved November 9, 2017.