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 LICKLEYHEAD 133 FOURTH PERIOD The main portion of the building is three stories high, while the north tower, south-east and south-west wings are five stories high ; many of the upper rooms having large angle turret closets. LICKLEYHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. This house is pleasantly situated on the Gadie, at the base of Ben- nochie, and 2j miles distant from Insch railway station (Fig. 589). It has been modernised and added to,, but the original design can still be made out. The building is on the L plan, but the wing is jutted out so FIG. 589. Lickleyhead. View from the North-West. as to command two of the faces. The date of its erection, 1629, is engraved over the entrance. The wing contains the principal staircase to the first floor, above which the stair is carried up, as usual, in a heavily corbelled turret, in the angle. The kitchen and cellar occupied the basement, with the usual small loophole windows, and the hall occupied the first floor. The angle turrets of the north front are two stories in height, with oval windows in the upper story, as in other late examples, such as Castle Fraser and Glamis. The mode of finishing the staircase turret is peculiar, being a good instance of the love of corbelling, so common in this period. Lickleyhead was built by the Forbeses of Leslie, and is now the pro- perty of Mr. Lumsden of Auchendoir.