Muckrach Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Tower house.
Muckrach Castle
- WRENN ID
- sunken-gutter-river
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Tower house
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1598, restored circa 1978. Square 3-storey and attic
tower house with stair drum tower at NW corbelled out to
square at upper 2 storeys; corbelled turret at opposite
angle. Harled, ashlar dressings. Further single storey
circular rubble tower at S linked to main building by short
length of former barmkin wall.
Doorway in SW re-entrant angle with dated and inscribed
plaque above. Stairs to 2nd and 3rd floors in additional
turret in re-entrant angle supported at 2nd floor
level by squinch-arch; conical slate roof and finial.
1 large window (probably later enlargement) lights 1st
floor hall in S elevation; remaining windows small,
sometimes diminutive; wallhead gabled dormer at E; mainly
4- or 12-pane glazing now in windows. Slit vents to SE
bartizan, basement and detached tower at S.
End stacks; local slate roof.
Detailed Attributes
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