MHG37238 - Braal Castle

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Type and Period (2)

COUNTRY HOUSE (19th Century - 1840 AD? to 1856 AD?)
HOTEL (19th Century - 1856 AD? to 1900 AD?)

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Braal Castle was built as a hotel in 1856 over the existing abandoned vaults of an unfinished replacement mansion house for the nearby Braal tower house. The tower house had latterly belonged to the Sinclairs of Ulbster who decided to construct a larger house on the site but it was never completed. <1>

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<1> SHG2442 Text/Publication/Volume: MacGibbon, D. and Ross, T.. 1887-92. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. Hardback. Vol. 3 pp.137-8.

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Grid reference	Centred ND 1378 6008 (300m by 300m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	ND16SW
Civil Parish	HALKIRK
Geographical Area	CAITHNESS

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https://canmore.org.uk/site/192238 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)

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