Logie-Elphinstone Castle, Aberdeenshire
Photo © Greg Stringham, 27 June 2005
Logie-Elphinstone Castle, Aberdeenshire
Photo © Greg Stringham,
27 June 2005
Logie-Elphinstone Castle is near to Whiteford, Aberdeenshire. The castle is also reffered to as Logie House, Logie House Hotel; Logie; and Logie-Ephinstone.
The castle, a three-storey towerhouse, was built for the Hunt family and is
located to the south-west of Dunfermline. Logie-Elphinstone was burned down
in the early 70's.
--LOGIE HOUSE, Perthshire.
This ruinous mansion is very beautifully situated on the lofty and wooded northern
bank of the river Almond, about four miles north from Methven. It was for centuries
the seat of the Drummonds of Logie-almond, a family founded by Sir John Drummond,
fourth son of John, second Earl of Perth, a staunch adherent of the House of
Stuart in 1644, as his descendants were in the following century. The original
house, now represented by the westmost part with the angle tower, was probably
built by him. One or two of the original windows, with the quasi-classic pediments
of the latter half of the seventeenth century, still remain, but most of them
have been altered. In the eighteenth century a mansion, consisting of three
sides of a picturesque quadrangle, was added on the east side of the original
house, having the principal entrance doorway in the centre and a quaint pediment
above, enclosing a large panel containing the Drummond arms, impaled with others,
now much worn away. The interior is SO much ruined that the arrangements cannot
be well made out. Still later — probably at the end of last century —
a detached edifice was erected along the east side of the above quadrangle,
containing on the ground floor two large public rooms, and a handsome staircase
leading to bed-rooms in the upper floor. This building seems to have been connected
with the older portions of the mansion by means of covered corridors, now nearly
destroyed, and of which a portion is visible in. It was probably built by Sir
William Drummond, a distinguished diplomatist and man of letters, who flourished
in the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the present century.
THE CASTELLATED AND DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTLAND BY DAVID MACGIBBON AND
THOMAS ROSS, 1889--