Scotland · Restored
Blackcraig Castle
Blackcraig Castle is a 19th-century Scottish Baronial mansion built from and around an earlier 16th-century tower house, designed and extended by Patrick Allan Fraser from the 1850s through the 1880s. It stands on the banks of the River Ardle near Blairgowrie and includes a separate listed bridgehouse and a walled garden.
Its prime
1880
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1880
The shape it held in its prime.
A multi-storey Baronial mansion combining an older three-storey rubble tower and larger 19th-century extensions in grey lime-mortared stone; steep pitched slate roofs punctuated by tall chimneys, a small corner turret with a conical roof, gabled roofline and stone dressings. The house sits low among mature trees on the banks of a river, approached across open pasture, with a separate stone bridgehouse nearby and a walled formal garden within the estate.
Its story
The story of Blackcraig Castle.
Blackcraig Castle is a Baronial mansion of 1856 on the banks of the River Ardle in Perthshire, close to Ballintuim and Blairgowrie, built from and around an earlier 16th-century tower house. Its builder was Patrick Allan Fraser, a prominent Scottish artist and architect, who designed and extended the house from the 1850s through the 1880s.
After Fraser's death in 1890 the castle became part of the Hospitalfield Arts Trust, and was later sold and run for a number of years as a guest house. A Class B-listed building with an A-listed walled garden and a separate listed bridgehouse, it has undergone extensive renovation and modernisation in recent years.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1880.
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Clans who held Blackcraig Castle.
The families that held Blackcraig Castle for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Built and held by the artist-architect Patrick Allan Fraser from 1856 until his death in 1890.
