Bamff House (2)
The house has been extended and altered at various different times, but the nucleus is a fairly simple free-standing tower, probably dating to the late 16th century, and forming the nearest part of the building in this photograph.  Nothing is ever entirely as it seems in these buildings and Tranter states that the upper parts of the tower appear to have been modified in the 17th century and that it probably contains the remains of the tower that preceded it.  He also states that 'the remains of a moat are thought to lie to the west', presumably eradicated by the formal garden.

There are two wide-splayed gun-loops visible here in the basement of the west wall.
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