What is recorded here

Dunrobin Castle stands above the Dornoch Firth as the largest house in northern Scotland, blending a fourteenth-century stone keep with Charles Barry's nineteenth-century expansion. The Gordons once forced a rival heir to lose his life at the tower, proving that beauty and brutality shared the same walls. Today the building belongs to the Earl of Sutherland, while its rooms still echo with the noise of centuries.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dunrobin Castle as Castle (14th Century), Country House (19th Century), War Memorial (20th 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.

Dunrobin Castle was built in the 14th century by the Earls of Sutherland and later expanded in the 19th century by the Sutherland family, who still hold the title. It is important as one of the most complete and best-preserved medieval castles in northern Scotland and as a notable example of Scottish Baronial architecture.

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