Summary Record

Event ID 995167

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Summary Record

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Blackcraig Castle was recorded by RCAHMS Threatened Buildings Survey in December 2013 prior to the sale of the Castle and estate. A photographic and a measured survey were carried out.

Patrick Allan Fraser of Hospitalfield, Arbroath bought the esate of Blackcraig from the trustees of Robert Rattray in 1847. The lands at Blackcraig comprised of 8 crofts. Fraser proceeded to build Blackcraig Castle which he altered and extended until the late 1880s when due to ill health the shootings were let. After Fraser's death in 1890 Blackcraig became part of the Hospitalfield Arts Trust. The trustees later sold Blackcraig to concemtrate on the Trust's main centre at Hospitalfield, Arbraoth. It was then run as a guest house for a number of years.

The RCAHMS survey has shown that there is no evidence of an earlier tower house on the site as suggested in various publications. Patrick Allan Fraser was responsible for the entire building, its complexity being the result of its development over apprpoximately 40 years.

STG 2014