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Ardverikie House - Loch Laggan, Scottish Highlands

Ardverikie House

Ardverikie House is a Category A Listed building situated on a promontory overlooking Loch Laggan in the Scottish Highlands. It was designed by John Rhind of Inverness in a Scots baronial style, its gabled roofline complete with octagonal turrets with corbelled conical roofs. The tower panel is inscribed "Burnt 1873 Rebuilt 1874 Finished 1878"; it is constructed of local grey granite rubble with contrasting tooled ashlar dressings. Ardverikie ......

Craigievar Castle - Alford, Aberdeenshire

Craigievar Castle

Craigievar Castle is a Category A Listed Tower House dating from the early 17th century. William Forbes bought the partially completed castle in 1625 and completed it in the spirit of the Scots Renaissance. It is known as ‘the pink castle’ and has been described as ... “The consummation of Scottish châteaux: perfect both in mass and detail. The ascent of its creamy, battered walls in a plain, stepped L-plan to an assemblage of corbel-table, corb ......

Private Chapel - Scottish Highlands

Private Chapel

This project was one of the most exciting and unique for LTM’s stonemasons. It involved the unprecedented opportunity to combine traditional craft skills and building materials with modern construction technology. This gave LTM masons the chance to consolidate their knowledge and understanding of various traditional materials and techniques, including ‘hot lime’ mortars for building all the granite block, hand split granite blocks (using the tra ......

Brig O\' Balgownie - Aberdeen

Brig O' Balgownie

The Brig O’ Balgownie is a Category A Listed bridge spanning the River Don in Old Aberdeen. The original structure was built in 1314-18 under the orders of Richard Cementarius, the first provost of Aberdeen. It was largely rebuilt in the early 17th century and remained the only northern route into Aberdeen until 1827. The existing bridge comprises a steeply pitched single span and pointed arch with corbelled parapets and narrow roadway....

Sunnyside Croft Studio - Near Buchan

Sunnyside Croft Studio

Sunnyside Croft Studio is a 5m wide x 20m long timber and straw bale structure, finished using traditional lime render and lime wash and capped with a ‘living’ roof. It is located near to Sunnyside Croft, a small traditional stone - built cottage near the Buchan coast. The studio is a unique example of ecological ‘new build’ construction, combining traditional skills and materials with modern construction technology. It draws on the local verna ......

New Elgin Doocot - Elgin, Moray

New Elgin Doocot

The New Elgin Doocot is a Category B Listed building dating from the 17th century. It is a small beehive dovecot built with coursed rubble with thin stone slab rat ledges and circular stone cope....

Powis Gate Towers, Kings College - Aberdeen

Powis Gate Towers, Kings College

Powis Gate is a Category B Listed building forming the gatehouse entrance to Powis House (1802). The structure was erected between 1833 and 1834 by John Leslie of Powis and comprises two minarets and centre arch. The distinctive ‘pepper pot’ minarets are a distinctive feature to Old Aberdeen, forming a unique landmark and monument to the University complex....

Fettercairn Arch - Fettercairn, Aberdeenshire

Fettercairn Arch

Fettercairn Arch is a Category B Listed Romanesque arch in the centre of Fettercairn village. It was built as a memorial to the Prince Consort and to commemorate the visit of Victoria and Albert in September 1861. It was designed by John Milne (of St Andrews) between 1864-5 and consists of two buttressed octagonal towers with short gabletted spirelets and wrought-iron finials. The arch is finished with a crenellated parapet with central curviline ......

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