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Brims Castle

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Tower House (Medieval)

Site Name Brims Castle

Classification Tower House (Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Mains Of Brims

Canmore ID 8018

Site Number ND07SW 3

NGR ND 04331 71018

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Oblique aerial view of Brims Castle and Mains of Brims farmstead, looking to the S.
Oblique aerial view of Brims Castle and Mains of Brims farmstead, looking to the S.Oblique aerial view centred on the farmsteading and the remains of the tower-house, taken from the SBrims Castle, ND07SW 3, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 2, VersoBrims Castle, ND07SW 3, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 1, RectoOblique aerial view of Brims Castle and Mains of Brims farmstead, looking to the SW.View of castle and farm buildings from the burnOblique aerial view of Brims Castle and Mains of Brims farmstead, looking to the W.Oblique aerial view of Brims Castle, looking to the NW.Oblique aerial view centred on the farmsteading and the remains of the tower-house, taken from the SEOblique aerial view of Brims Castle, looking to the NNW.Brims Castle, ND07SW 3, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoOblique aerial view of Brims Castle and Mains of Brims farmstead, looking to the WSW.General view of house

Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Thurso
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Archaeology Notes

ND07SW 3 04331 71018

(ND 0433 7102) Castle (NR) (rems of)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)

The remains of Brims Castle, a late 16th-century rubble-built tower house on the L-plan consisting of a crow-step gabled main block, three storeys and an attic in height, lying E-W with a projecting stair wing in the NE. An open wall-head turret commands the entrance at first floor level in the E of the stair wing. A courtyard to the N has been filled with later subsidiary buildings on the E, but on the W there remains part of the high curtain wall, containing a round-arched and mouled gateway, surmounted by an empty heraldic panel space.

Still partly occupied as part of the adjoining farm, Brims Castle belonged to the Sinclair family.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92; RCAHMS 1911; N Tranter 1962-70.

Brims Castle is now partly unroofed.

Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 28 October 1964.

Brims Castle is now a roofless shell in a dangerous state.

Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 13 August 1981.

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