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Latitude: 57.5208 / 57°31'14"N
Longitude: -4.1027 / 4°6'9"W
OS Eastings: 274159
OS Northings: 849797
OS Grid: NH741497
Mapcode National: GBR J87V.9DP
Mapcode Global: WH4GB.Y7HB
Plus Code: 9C9QGVCW+8W
Entry Name: Castle Stuart
Listing Name: Castle Stuart and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 5 October 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 351556
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17591
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200351556
Location: Petty
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Culloden and Ardersier
Parish: Petty
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Castle
Dated 1625, restoration and alterations, J M Wardrop and
C Reid, 1869. Tower house of height varying between 4-6
storey; all harled rubble with ashlar dressings. Long
rectangular south facing block, with flanking SW and SE
square towers and with 2-storey square turrets with
crowstepped gabled roofs corbelled out at NW and NE angles.
Original entrance in base of SW re-entrant angle; 1869
principal entrance off-centre in recessed irregular 3-bay
South front, with moulded door jambs and with blind panel
recess above. 6-storey SW tower has (1869) crenellated
wall-head with round corbelled angles and water spouts;
stair turret projects above crenellated wallhead, terminating
with finialled ogee open crown spire. SE tower rises 4
storeys, with steeply pitched crowstepped roof with end
stacks and corbelled angle turrets with conical roofs.
Long rounded narrow stair towers in East and West re-entrant
angles corbelled out at first floor height.
Gun loops and slit vents in ground floor; regular
fenestration in upper floors, many windows enlarged and
regularised during 1869 restoration. Some windows break
wallhead under shaped pediments (also 1869). Multi-pane
glazing; end and wallhead coped stacks; local slate roofs.
Interior: original floor plan mostly survives, though a
later staircase has been inserted (1869) to service principal
entrance. Scale and plat stair in SW tower leading to
first floor hall; upper storeys served by mural wheel
stairs. Plain original chimney piece in first floor hall;
elsewhere mainly 1869, including extensive panelling;
turret rooms converted to bathrooms in late 1970s.
Gate piers: later 19th century (probably 1869) pair
panelled polished ashlar square gate piers with corniced
caps and ornate urn finials; linked by decorative wrought-iron overthrow; incorporating Moray monogram and coronet as
central motif; matching cast and wrought iron carriage gates.
Built for James Stuart Third Earl of Moray circa 1625
on site of earlier castle. Castle Stuart continues in
possession of present Earl of Moray.
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