Blackcraig Castle
Black Craig Castle is a country house residential tower in Blairgowrie in the Scottish county of Perthshire (now administrative unit Perth and Kinross ).
history
A residential tower was built there in the 16th century . Patrick Allan Fraser had the country house built around the residential tower, which took almost 40 years, from 1856 to the end of the 1880s. Fraser had bought the land in 1847 from Robert Rattray's trustees .
After Fraser's death in 1890, the castle became part of the Hospitalfield Arts Trust . It was later sold and operated as a guest house for years.
description
Blackcraig Castle is three stories high and is made of quarry stone walled in with lime mortar.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry on Blackcraig Castle in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ↑ a b 'Romantic' Perthshire castle up for sale . The Courier. Archived from the original on October 25, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
- ↑ a b Blackcraig Castle . Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
Web links
Coordinates: 56 ° 39 ′ 51.5 ″ N , 3 ° 27 ′ 24.8 ″ W.