What is recorded here

Castle Fraser is a five-storey Z-plan castle built from 1575 to 1636 for the Frasers of Muchalls, rising beside older stone and still holding family portraits, furniture and rooms changed across centuries. Michael Fraser began it on an earlier tower, John Bell and Thomas Leiper shaped its elaborate form, and later owners rebuilt, restored and finally gave it to the National Trust for Scotland. It remains a inhabited grand house rather than a dead monument: a place where lineage, craftsmanship and memory keep being rearranged but never fully erased.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Fraser as Culvert (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.

Castle Fraser in Aberdeenshire was built by the Fraser family in the 13th century and significantly expanded in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is important as a historic seat of the Fraser clan and as an example of Scottish medieval and later domestic architecture.

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