What is recorded here

Crathes Castle stands in Aberdeenshire as a post-medieval house, its walls holding the shape of centuries without claiming a single owner's name. The stones may have warmed kitchens, blocked arrows or watched children run across grass now lost to time.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Crathes Castle, House of Crathes as House (period Unassigned). 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.

Crathes Castle was built by the Gordon family in the early 16th century and is remembered as a fine example of a Scottish Renaissance castle, associated with the powerful and historically significant Gordon earls of Huntly.

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