Dumbreck Castle
{{Short description|Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland}}
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Dumbreck Castle was a tower house, dating from the 16th century, around {{convert|3.5|mi}} west of Ellon, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.Coventry Martin (1997) The Castles of Scotland. Goblinshead. {{ISBN|1 899874 10 0}} p153
Alternative names were Drumbeck Castle and Mains Of Dumbreck.{{cite web|url=http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/19608/details/dumbreck+castle/|title=Dumbreck Castle|accessdate=2015-01-10}}
History
The property was owned by the Dumbreck family.{{cite book |last1=Temple |first1=William |title=The Thanage of Fermartyn Including the District Commonly Called Formartine Its Proprietors, with Genealogical Deductions; Its Parishes, Ministers, Churches, Churchyards, Antiquities &c |date=1894 |publisher=Wyllie & sons |location=Aberdeen, Scotland |pages=467–471 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k9c7AQAAMAAJ |access-date=15 November 2021}} It passed to the Meldrum family who built the castle.
Structure
None of the property remains. Architectural fragments have been built into farm buildings. The left hand part of a gun loop is built into the east-north-east gable of the farmhouse, while a carved fragment of stone is built into the north wall of the farm outbuilding to its east.{{cite web|url=http://www.stravaiging.com/history/castle/dumbreck-castle|title=Dumbreck Castle|accessdate=2015-01-10}}
For stylistic reasons it has been suggested that this was the work of Thomas Leper.