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Rait Castle

Rait Castle is a ruined late 13th/early 14th-century hall-house near Nairn, Highland, Scotland. The rectangular stone building survives as high portions of thick rubble walls with a projecting corner tower and a garderobe turret, and is a scheduled monument.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

Its prime

1300

Today

Ruin

As it stood in 1300

The shape it held in its prime.

Rectangular medieval hall-house of roughly 54 by 22 feet, the ruins show thick rubble walls of mixed granite and sandstone up to 36 feet high, with a single tall pointed-arched window in the wall and a projecting square tower at one corner. A narrow garderobe turret projects from the west side. The south courtyard is built around a steep granite outcrop. No roofs remain; wall faces are rough-faced masonry of warm brown and grey tones, with rubble infill and surviving doorway openings.

Step inside

8 places to explore in 1300.

The record describes 8 distinct spots at Rait Castle — including 2 interiors: upper hall interior, ground-floor storage rooms. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Exterior approach from the field (north)South courtyard on the granite outcropExternal stair and defended upper entranceUpper hall interiorGround-floor storage roomsProjecting corner tower (exterior)West-side garderobe towerPointed-arched window opening

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