What is recorded here
Castle Street in Forfar, Angus, still holds number 17 as a nineteenth-century shop building. It stands among ordinary streets yet keeps the shape of a working commercial front from the Post Medieval period. The exact shop name and keeper have faded from the saved data, but the building remains a visible fragment of that lost trade.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Forfar, 17 Castle Street as Building (19th Century), Shop (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.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
Places near here
Forfar, Castle Street, K6 Telephone KiosksTelephone Box (20th Century) · 25 yd
Forfar, Castle Street, Municipal BuildingsMunicipal Building(s) (19th Century) · 29 yd
Forfar, 6, 7 the Cross, Royal Bank of ScotlandBank (financial) (period Unassigned) · 63 yd
Meffan Institute Museum & GalleryMuseum · 63 yd
Forfar, the Cross, British Linen BankBank (financial) (period Unassigned) · 66 yd
Forfar, Castle HillCastle (medieval) · 176 yd
Forfar, Green StreetNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 292 yd
Carseburn Road, ForfarNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 536 yd
Forfar, Monument to Sir Robert Peel, Forfar CemeteryCommemorative Monument (19th Century) · 594 yd
Peter Reid StatueMemorial · 739 yd
Balmashanner HillViewpoint · 1384 yd
Gallows TreeBroadleaf Tree, exact kind not recorded · 1498 yd