Scotland · Partial ruin
Craigmillar Castle
Craigmillar Castle is a medieval L-plan tower house and courtyard complex on a low rocky hill south-east of Edinburgh. Built from the late 14th century and extended through the 15th and 16th centuries, it comprises a four-storey keep surrounded by a 15th-century inner curtain wall with corner round towers, and a lower outer wall enclosing broad outer courts with a chapel and dovecote.
First raised
1300
Its prime
1566
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1566
The shape it held in its prime.
An L-plan, four-storey stone tower house sits on a rocky outcrop, with a projecting southern jamb, thick masonry walls and a stone-flagged parapet walk. A 15th-century curtain wall encircles a roughly 10-metre inner courtyard, with round towers at each corner and machicolations and battlements along the wallhead. Beyond this is a lower outer wall forming a larger outer court containing a chapel and a circular dovecote; the whole complex built of pale grey local sandstone on a low hill amid fields.
Step inside
12 places to explore in 1566.
The record describes 12 distinct spots at Craigmillar Castle — including 6 interiors: guard room in the jamb, hall (second floor) with carved fireplace, kitchen in the tower jamb and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See Craigmillar Castle with the fires lit.
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