What is recorded here

Old Butler's Cottage still stands beside Cortachy Castle in Angus, though no date or owner has been recorded for it. A butler's house suggests a great household, yet the absence of facts leaves the chamber empty and the resident unnamed. The castle may have commanded the valley while the cottage waited for orders, but without a name the butler remains a shadow rather than a person.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cortachy Castle, Old Butler's Cottage as Estate Cottage (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Cortachy Castle, Old Butler's Cottage is a historic estate cottage associated with the broader Cortachy Castle estate in Angus, Scotland. While specific builders or occupants are not well documented, the structure is remembered as part of the historic landscape linked to the influential Lindsay family, who held the Barony of Strathardle from the 14th century onwards.

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