Monzie Castle

Margaret Scott, heiress of Monzie, deeded three-quarters of the lands in 1613 to her son, James Graeme, who later built a house on the property. The house has a marriage lintel (in fact in this instance a pediment) dating from around 1635 bearing the figure of a man with a moustache holding corn in one hand and a bible in the other flanked by the letters M, I and G. M was Marjory the wife of James Graeme (IG). At the base is a Greek inscription translating as "I am led by scripture". Two further pediments are one in Latin and one in Hebrew: ""Seek the One I worship" and "I have found his Prosperity". James Graeme died at the Battle of Philiphaugh in 1645. The building may have incorporated…

The original house was a rubble-walled three-storey building built in a L-shape. The second-storey windows rose through the eaves to pedimented dormerheads. A similar pediment surrounds the entrance on the west side. Its lintel bears three weathered heraldic shields, the initials of Graeme and his wife Marjory, and the date 1634, presumably its date of construction. A scale-and-platt staircase gives access to the upper storeys. A large fireplace on the ground floor has a swagged lintel carved with a heraldic panel and the date 1634.