Dundee, Claypotts Road, Claypotts Castle. General view from West. Digital image of AN 757

Description Dundee, Claypotts Road, Claypotts Castle. General view from West. Digital image of AN 757

Date 21/3/1941

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

Catalogue Number SC 800293

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AN 757

Scope and Content Claypotts Castle, Dundee, from west This view from the west, taken in the mid-20th century, shows the entrance front of the castle, with the doorway at the base of the central rectangular tower. The panel above would originally have borne the arms of the owner. The bulge between the tower on the right and the central block contains the main stair. The Claypotts estate was sold in 1601 to Sir William Graham of Ballunie, and eventually passed to the famous James Graham of Claverhouse (known as Bonnie Dundee), loser at the Battle of Killiecrankie. The estate was then forfeited to the Crown, and transferred to the Douglas family, who gave the castle into State care in 1926. It is now in the care of Historic Scotland and open to the public. Claypotts Castle was built on the estate of that name in the second half of the 16th century, generally ascribed to the period between 1569 and 1588. It was built by John Strachan, on a Z-plan, with diagonally-opposed round towers flanking a rectangular tower. This arrangement gives much more accommodation than a traditional tower-house. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Emergency Survey

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