Kemnay House
Kemnay House is a 17th-century tower house, now incorporated in a later house, about south and west of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and south of Kemnay, to the south of the River Don. History. During the 16th century, Kemnay was a property of the Douglases of Glenbervie. It was acquired by the Crombie family, who built the present house. Thomas Burnett of Leys purchased it in 1688; he was subsequently imprisoned in the Bastille, Paris, at the instigation of Jacobite enemies. Alterations, including the extension of the wings, took place in 1833. The house is still occupied. Structure . The original tower house was a tall L-plan building. The entrance in the reentrant angle, above which a stair turret arises this from the second floor, has been replaced. There is a vaulted basement, with the kitchen in the wing. The cream-washed walls are pierced by small windows. The three-storey wing, which has a bell gable, was an addition in 1688. There are traces of a curtain wall. The porch on the west front, and a granite water tower, were additions in 1833.