Arran, Brodick Castle — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Brodick Castle on Arran has worn three shapes: a fourteenth-century castle, a seventeenth-century artillery fortification with a drawbridge, and a nineteenth-century country house. Those changes suggest a place that kept adapting instead of dying, perhaps from royal residence to military strongpoint and back to domestic comfort. The drawbridge and gun positions imply a time when Arran faced real danger, while the later country-house form suggests the island regained confidence in its own beauty.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Arran, Brodick Castle as Artillery Fortification (17th Century), Castle (14th Century), Country House (19th Century), Drawbridge (17th 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.

Brodick Castle on Arran was originally built in the 14th century by the Lords of the Isles and later held by the Campbell and subsequently the Stewart families. It is important as a historic stronghold and country house that reflects the strategic and social history of the Scottish isles.

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