Nicklaus Pevsner described it as an elaborate piece of Elizabethan architecture by Frederick J Barnes, 1849 . Red and yellow brick, symmetrical, with shaped gables and angle towers .
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Charles McKean described the castle as " a splendid double-courtyard Renaissance chateau " and also said " It consisted of a four-storey block with circular angle towers and a stair turret ".
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On the east face of the south-east angle tower was a sundial with the monogram " C . M . E . L " for Charles Maitland & his wife Elizabeth Lauder, the monogram being divided by the date 1664, the year in which Maitland commenced dramatic new extensions to the old castle.