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Fetteresso Castle

📍 Aberdeenshire, Scotland

3.4 ★★★½ 55 reviews

About

Fetteresso Castle is a 14th-century tower house, rebuilt in 1761 as a Scottish Gothic style Palladian manor, with clear evidence of prehistoric use of the site. It is situated immediately west of the town of Stonehaven in Kincardineshire, slightly to the west of the A90 dual carriageway. Other notable historic fortified houses or castles in this region are Dunnottar Castle, Muchalls Castle, Fiddes Castle, Cowie Castle and Monboddo House.

Site has medieval origins as a stronghold of the Keith Earls Marischal. The surviving building dates mainly from the 17th century. After the Keiths were forfeited following the 1715 Jacobite rising, the castle served as an Episcopalian chapel when such worship was outlawed. Later used as a farmstead. The ruins are substantial and atmospheric, set in woodland near Stonehaven.