5 Castle Road, Grantown-On-Spey

This is a late 18th-century, two-storey, three-bay, symmetrical terraced house located on Castle Road in Grantown-on-Spey. The house was built as part of a planned village founded in 1765 by Sir James Grant, intended to foster small-scale manufacturing and serve as a local market centre. Grantown-on-Spey prospered in the late 18th century with industries like linen production and a brewery. Castle Road was among the first streets laid out, and number 5 reflects the design regulations of the early village houses.

The principal, or southeastern, elevation is constructed from semi-coursed stone rubble blocks with large boulder stone foundations. It features a central doorway with a two-leaf timber entrance door and small, single windows in each bay. The rear elevation has been rendered and has widened window openings, as well as a small, single-storey glazed addition from the later 20th century.

The roof is slated, with two small cast iron rooflights, a zinc ridge, stone chimney stacks, and a stone skew.

Photographs taken in 2020 indicate that the interior decorative scheme largely dates to the later 20th century.

The first edition Ordnance Survey map from 1868 shows the original layout including a range extending from the northwest corner, a detached range to the west forming a courtyard, and a gap allowing rear access. A later map from 1903 depicts additions to the rear of the house and the construction of number 7 Castle Road to the south gable. Subsequent demolition of the 19th-century additions and rear courtyard has left part of the northern range surviving as a north garden wall.