View from South Digital image of D/30695/cn

Description View from South Digital image of D/30695/cn

Date 12/5/1998

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 565465

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 30695 CN

Scope and Content Cluny Castle, Highland, from south This shows the south front of the castle which is constructed of grey granite ashlar with sides and back of rubble. The main block is battlemented at roof level and has small corbelled bartizans (turrets) at its corners. The north wing on the left included a billiard room on the ground floor. The large tri-partite windows flanking the central doorway lit the dining and drawing rooms. The basement was where the servants prepared and cooked food and washed linen. The ground floor was reserved for entertaining guests, while the family slept in the bedrooms on the first floor. The servants shared bedrooms in the attic of the house. Cluny Castle was built in 1805 for the Macphersons of Cluny and stands on the site of an earlier castle which was destroyed by fire in 1746. William Laidlaw Carruthers, Inverness, designed the north-west wing and the Queen Anne Revival-style porch c.1890. Many of the estate buildings were also built when the castle was rebuilt, including gate lodges, stables, meal mill, saw mill and walled gardens. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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