General view of Kilquoy Castle.

Description General view of Kilquoy Castle.

Date 9/1965

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number NBR 269/B/2/33

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 1551026

Scope and Content Written on the back of the mounted print: 'Shire: Ross & Cromarty. Building: Kilcoy Castle'. Photographer: 'CHC' Date: 'Sep 1965' View of Kilcoy Castle, Ross and Cromarty Kilcoy Castle was built c.1620 by Alexander Mackenzie, fourth son of the Baron of Kintail. It is a Z-plan tower-house built of red sandstone, with a variety of angle turrets, gun loops, armorials, pedimented dormers and corbelled turrets (bartizans). Various features of the original castle are visible in this view, such as the corbelled turret on the left, and a variety of pedimented dormers. On the right can be seen the curve of a turnpike stair. There are also numerous chimney stacks of all sizes. The castle was restored and re-roofed in 1890 by Inverness architects, Alexander Ross and Robert John Macbeth, and is an early example of a sympathetic restoration when it was more fashionable to rebuild. Further restoration work was carried out in 1968. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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