Building record MHG6893 - Kilravock Castle

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 8140 4937 (58m by 57m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH84NW
Old County NAIRNSHIRE
Civil Parish CROY AND DALCROSS
Geographical Area NAIRN

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NH84NW 2 8140 4936.
(NH 8140 4936) Kilravock Castle (NR)
OS 6"map, Nairnshire, 2nd ed., (1906)

Kilravock Castle originally consisted of a quadrilateral keep 39ft by 31ft Licence to build was granted in 1460 and confirmed in 1475. The keep, though it has 14th century and 15th century characteristics is probably of the latter date. In the 17th century the keep was enlarged into a castle by the unusual manner of adding a square stair-case to the SW angle and a large rectangular building, attached to that, in order to form the south front of a quadrangle.
In more recent times, omitted in plan, other buildings have been added to the north of the main base and a wing has been extended along the west of the quadrangle.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92; ISSFC 1926.

The castle is generally as described above, and is still occupied. Mrs Rose (Kilravock Castle, Croy, Nairnshire), the owner believes that the keep was built in the 15th century with later 16th and 17th century additions (second phase) but all records have been destroyed.
Visited by OS (N K B) 11 August 1964.
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Information from a catalogue slip
Owner: Trustees of the late Lt Col Hugh Rose. (Davidson & Garden, 12 Dee Street, Aberdee.)
Occupier: Mrs Ruth Rose

REFERENCE
SRO
Account from John Baillie for wright work at Kilravock House.
It includes sash window for the New Front, roofing and sarking of the new passage and staircase, and amounts to ?51.5.6.
1759-1761
GD125/Box 20

See also:
NH84NW0003 ?Chapel and dovecot
Jhooper, 8/1/2002
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NAI Local Plan, Dec. 2000: P21/8. Tourism & Recreation.
J Aitken : 05/06/01.
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Sources/Archives (10)

  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Forman, S. 1958. 'The Roses of Kilravock', Scot Fld Vol. 105 Oct 1958, p.37-9. Scot Fld. 37-9. 37-9.
  • --- Image/Photograph(s): Kilravock Castle. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
  • --- Image/Photograph(s): Kilravock Castle. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
  • --- Image/Photograph(s): Kilravock Castle. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
  • --- Image/Photograph(s): Kilravock Castle. Colour Slide; Digital Image. .
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Close-Brooks, J. 1986. Exploring Scotland's Heritage: The Highlands. 150, No. 80.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Love J, McMullen E (ed). 1994. A Salmon for the Schoolhouse, A Nairnshire Parish in the C19.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: MacGibbon, D and Ross, T. 1887-92. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries. Hardback. Vol. 3, 631-3; fig. 587.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Scottish Field. {196-?}. List of house and castle articles by Shiela Forman. October 1958.
  • --- Text/Publication/Serial: 1920. Scottish Country Life, Vol 7, No 6. p 261-265.

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Sep 12 2016 2:37PM

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