Cardross, Cardross Road, Cats Castle — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Cats Castle stands on Cardross Road as a 19th Century house, recorded in the national historic environment register with a point accurate to one metre. The name suggests a child's imagination or a private joke rather than a formal title, because no castle structure appears in the facts. It may have been a grand house, a small cottage or a building entirely different from its nickname.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cardross, Cardross Road, Cats Castle as House (19th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Cats Castle, also known as Cardross Castle, was built in the 19th century as a country house, likely by a local landowning family. It is remembered for its historical association with the area of Cardross in Argyll and its survival as a notable example of 19th-century Scottish domestic architecture.

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