What is recorded here
James Crawford raised the first Brucklay tower between 1600 and 1625, but Charles Brand stripped its roof in 1953, leaving a hollow shell where a grand house stood. The thick east wall and barrel-vaulted cellars still mark the footprint of that early tower, yet the bare chambers expose every later addition and removal. What remains is a skeleton of a home, big enough to walk through and empty enough to hear in.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Brucklay Castle as Country House (19th Century), Tower House (16th Century)(possible). 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.
Brucklay Castle was likely built as a tower house in the 16th century and later modified into a country house in the 19th century. It is remembered as an example of evolving Scottish domestic architecture and as a site recorded in Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment.
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Places near here
Brucklay Castle, East LodgeGate Lodge (period Unassigned), Gate Pier (period Unassigned) · 1192 yd
AtherbAxehead(s) (stone)(period Unassigned), Hammer (stone)(period Unassigned), Lithic Implement(s) (flint)(period Unassigned) · 1369 yd
Brucklay Castle, West LodgeGate Lodge (late 19th Century), Gate Pier (late 19th Century) · 1483 yd
Fedderate CastleCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval) · 1565 yd
HoneyneukEnclosure (period Unassigned) · 1.1 mi
Maud War MemorialMemorial · 1.7 mi
NewlandhillNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 2.1 mi
Den of Old MaudWood · 2.1 mi
New Deer, Hill of Culsh, CemeteryCemetery (19th Century) · 2.2 mi
Bruxie WoodNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 2.6 mi
Borrowhill PlantationForest · 3.2 mi
Hill of TurlundieMountain / peak · 4.4 mi