Allardice Castle

Allardice Castle — also spelled Allardyce — is a 16th-century Scottish manor house in Aberdeenshire, sitting roughly 1.5 km northwest of Inverbervie in the traditional county of Kincardineshire. The Bervie Water curves around two sides of the house, giving it a near-moated character unusual for a Lowland manor. Listed at Category A by Historic Scotland, the highest protection tier for built heritage, it ranks among the most architecturally significant structures in the region. The house remains the private home of the Cowie family rather than a public attraction, meaning most visitors experience it from the surrounding landscape. That quiet, lived-in remoteness — Renaissance stonework beside a river, untouched by tourism — is precisely what lends the castle its understated atmosphere.