Lauriston Castle, a mansion in St Cyrus parish, Kincardineshire, on the steep verge of a deep wooded ravine, ¾ mile N of Lauriston station on the Bervie branch of the North British railway, this being 6¾ miles NNE of Montrose. Comprising portions of a 10th century castle, which in 1336 was captured by Edward III., and which belonged to the Stratons from the 13th century till 1695, it is mainly a spacious and elegant mansion-house of the early part of the present century, with grounds of singular beauty. Its owner, David Scott Porteous, Esq. (b. 1852; suc. 1872), holds 3437 acres in the shire, valued at £5534 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 57, 1868.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)