What is recorded here

Cluny Castle stands in Aberdeenshire as a layered Gordon residence where a medieval tower house, a 1604 Z-plan castle, and a 19th-century chapel estate overlap in one inhabited landscape. It sheltered Jacobite rebels, survived an 1820 transformation, dazzled visitors with its 1870 oratory, and shook off a 1926 fire before becoming a private wedding and event house. The grounds still hold the shape of meadows and rising ground named in the old Cluny title, while the building keeps changing rooms, memories and rituals around that older frame.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cluny Castle as Chapel (19th Century), Country House (19th Century), Motte (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval). 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.

Cluny Castle is a 19th-century country house and chapel, built on a site that may include medieval remains such as a motte and tower house. It is remembered for its historical layers, reflecting both medieval and later Scottish architectural and social history.

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