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Invercauld Castle
Invercauld Castle is a country house on Royal Deeside near Braemar in Scotland, long associated with the Farquharson family. The building incorporates a 16th-century tower house core and was extensively remodelled in 1875 in the Scots Baronial style; the grounds are registered for their designed landscape.
Its prime
1875
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1875
What Invercauld Castle looked like in its prime.
A compact grey-granite Scots Baronial house with steep slate roofs pierced by dormer windows, small round conical-roofed corner turrets and a taller square crenellated tower rising above the central block. The entrance front sits on a cleared lawn framed by birch and pine woodland, with a reflective pond in the foreground and snow-capped Cairngorm peaks beyond. Masonry is uniform grey stone; rooflines are varied with stepped gables and chimneys, and the composition reads as a single, complete late-19th-century country house.
Its story
The story of Invercauld Castle.
A Tower House on Deeside, 14th–17th Centuries
The Farquharson family settled in this stretch of Royal Deeside near Braemar in the fourteenth century, and in the sixteenth century built a tower house on the site; its vaulted basement survives within the present building. That tower house was remodelled in the late seventeenth century.
Scots Baronial Remodelling and Listed Status, 18th Century–Present
Further alterations followed through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and in 1875 the house was extensively remodelled by John Thomas Wimperis in the Scots Baronial style; it retains many of its Victorian furnishings and paintings. Invercauld remains a country house, protected as a category A listed building since 1972, and its grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.
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6 places to explore in 1875.
The record describes 6 distinct spots at Invercauld Castle, including 2 interiors: 16th-century vaulted basement, victorian reception room (interior). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more rooms, more angles, and more of the place to stand in.
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Clans who held Invercauld Castle.
The families that held Invercauld Castle for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Farquharson
Seat of the Farquharsons, settled in the area from the 14th century; their 16th-century tower house is the core of the present castle.
