What is recorded here

Cawdor Castle, Home Farm, Dairy stands as a late 19th Century dairy beside the castle in Highland, Scotland. The building still smells of butter and wood smoke in memory, though no one remains to churn cream or sweep the stone floor. It is not a display hall or public attraction, but a working kitchen of the estate, where women and boys may have carried pails before dawn. The castle takes the praise, while the dairy keeps the quieter truth: greatness runs on bread, butter and repeated labour.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cawdor Castle, Home Farm, Dairy as Dairy (late 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.

Cawdor Castle, originally built in the 14th century by Clan Mackenzie, is historically significant for its association with Shakespeare's *Macbeth*, though the structure at Home Farm, Dairy, is a late 19th-century building and not the medieval castle. The site remains notable for its connection to Scottish history and literature.

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