Alternative Names Balquolly
Site type CASTLE, TOWER HOUSE
Canmore ID 19139
Site Number NJ74NE 2.00
NGR NJ 75713 46976
Council ABERDEENSHIRE
Parish TURRIFF
Former Region GRAMPIAN
Former District BANFF AND BUCHAN
Former County ABERDEENSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

Architectural Notes

NJ74NE 2.00 75713 46976


NJ74NE 2.01 75720 46641 Home Farm
NJ74NE 2.02 75779 46959 Garden Walls
NJ74NE 2.03 75782 46977 Sundial
NJ74NE 2.04 75629 46877 Coach House
NJ74NE 2.05 75601 46833 Estate Houses

(NJ 7571 4697) Hatton Castle (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959)

Hatton Castle is a castellated mansion with corner turrets, rebuilt in 1812-4, on the site of, and incorporated with, part of the old castle of Balquolly. The latter belonged to the Mowats from c. 1400 to 1729, when it was sold to Alexander Duff of Hatton.
J Ferguson 1913; Name Book 1871.

NMRS REFERENCE:
Owner: Lady Doris Duff.

Plans: Hatton Castle Drawings. Copies of original drawings held in Hatton Castle Estate Offices.
W.W. Duncan Turriff 1901 - 3 photograph; plans and section.
1907 - 7 photograph of floor plans showing heating arrangements.
18c - Photostat of a note of the expense of timber and slates.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Hatton Castle.
Scottish Record Office.
Hatton, 1753.
Grate: 'Mr Thain (Alexander Thain or Thean, mcht of Leith) has undertaken to send by his ship the Graite your father wrote for...'.
Thomas Riddock to Jas Duff, writer in Aberdeen (son of Alexander Duff of Hatton), Leith 3rd May.
'[Your Grate will be sent to the care of Corsinday'. 15th June Ib./86
GD48/507/2/67

Bogdan and Bryce, N and I B D (1991) 'Castles, manors and 'town houses' survey', Discovery Excav Scot
Page(s): 27

Cumming, I (2000) 'Tillycairn, Hatton Castle, and Forter Castle - the work', in Clow, R Restoring Scotland's castles: an account of the restoration or rebuilding of eleven tower houses, based on presentations made at a conference held in Glasgow at the Henry Wood Hall, Woodside, organised by the Strathclyde Group of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland, Glasgow
Page(s): 176-80, 183-7 Held at RCAHMS F.5.21.CLO

Ferguson, J (1913b) 'The old castles of Buchan', Trans Buchan Fld Club, vol.10
Page(s): 81