Brodie Castle

Brodie Castle is a tower-house with Scottish Baronial alterations and additions, dating from 1567 to 1852. The substantial mansion features additions made in 1824 by William Burn, which were completed by James Wylson around 1840 to 1852. It underwent restoration from 1978 to 1980. The building is mainly three storeys tall and has a roughly L-plan that incorporates the original 16th century Z-plan tower.

The exterior is harled with ashlar margins and dressings. The main south elevation includes the 1567 tower house on the west side, with an earlier 17th century addition. It features a cap-house, a crenellated corbelled wallhead, water spouts, and decorative gablets on the dormer windows. The entrance is located in the re-entrant angle and has a projecting stair turret that rises from the first floor and terminates with a slender conical roof.

The gabled eastern portion, built between 1824 and 1852, includes a wide five-bay return garden front with projecting outer gables. The windows have hoodmoulds, and the fenestration is mullioned and transomed, with canted windows and shaped crowstepped gables. A five-bay single storey and attic wing with similar fenestration extends at right angles to the northeast. The roof is slate, with varied glazing and coped end, wallhead, and ridge stacks.

Inside, the entrance hall, adapted by James Wylson around 1845, features a vaulted undercroft with stumpy columns and foliated capitals, as well as re-set inscribed stone plaques. The library, also from around 1845, is lined with wooden bookcases beneath a continuous egg and dart frieze.

The blue sitting room has a vaulted ceiling adorned with embossed plaster motifs and strapwork from 1635 to 1640. The red drawing room, originally the first-floor hall of the 1567 castle, was redecorated in the 1820s by William Burn and features a groined plaster ceiling and an ornate panelled chimneypiece with carved figures that rise to the ceiling height.

The dining room, which was the former first-floor hall of the 17th century wing, has a heavily embossed ceiling from the late 17th century, grained and stained around 1825, along with panelling and doors that are also grained. The drawing room, designed by William Burn in 1824, features painted decoration on the architraves, over-doors, and ceiling, likely dating from the 1860s and restored in 1982. The best bed chamber includes a 17th century plaster ceiling frieze and corner motifs.