What is recorded here
Forres, 29 Caroline Street, the Castle was an inn in the 18th Century, a busy stone chamber where travellers drank, argued and forgot their troubles. The name Castle suggests pride, as if the room itself were a fortress against hunger and rain. People may have sat in that very spot, passing bottles and sharing stories until midnight.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Forres, 29 Caroline Street, the Castle as Inn (18th 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.
Forres, 29 Caroline Street, the Castle, was built in the 18th century and served as an inn. It is remembered as a historic building in Forres, reflecting domestic and commercial architecture of the period in Scotland.
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