Charcoal and white ink on paper, c.1937
RCAHMS: Leslie Grahame Thomson MacDougall Collection presented in 1983
Midmar, lying half-way between the valleys of the Dee and Don, is a Z-plan tower house, thought to have been built by the architect George Bell c.1565-75.
The interior of the house preserves nearly all of its original features. The rooms open through one another, without corridors or passages. Panelled rooms, dating from the late seventeenth century, have plaster ceilings with simple geometrical ribbed patterns.
This perspective view by Leslie Grahame Thomson and Connel illustrates a proposed restoration in the 1930s, including a plan of the principal floor. However, the castle was not restored until 1977, having been almost continuously uninhabited since 1842.