Alternative Names Brackley Castle; Braichlie; Braicklie; Braickley House; Brackley House
Site type CASTLE
Canmore ID 32472
Site Number NO39SE 3
NGR NO 3721 9454
Council ABERDEENSHIRE
Parish GLENMUICK, TULLICH AND GLENGAIRN
Former Region GRAMPIAN
Former District KINCARDINE AND DEESIDE
Former County ABERDEENSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NO39SE 3 3620 9455.

The modern house of Braichlie (Brackley: NO 37 94) is built on the site of the old castle of that name. Jervise notes that it suffered from the troops of General Mackay and probably from those of the Royalists in 1715 and 1745. Only a fragment of it now exists.
A Jervise 1875-9; A I McConnachie 1898.

There is no trace or local knowledge of an old castle at the modern house formerly known as Brackley, now called the House of Glenmuick, at NO 3620 9455.
Visited by OS (N K B) 27 October 1967.

Brackley Castle: listed.
Scottish Castle Survey 1988; N Bogdan and I B D Bryce 1991.

Architectural Notes

Present house designed by Dan Gibson 1898 for Sir James Mackenzie originally called Braickley House renamed when the 1870 mansion designed by Sir Samuel Morton Peto burnt down.
RCAHMS AUGUST 2004 (STG)

Bogdan and Bryce, N and I B D (1991) 'Castles, manors and 'town houses' survey', Discovery Excav Scot
Page(s): 33

Coventry, M (2001) The castles of Scotland Musselburgh
Page(s): 97 Held at RCAHMS F.5.2.COV

Jervise, A (1875-9) Epitaphs and inscriptions from burial grounds and old buildings in the north-east of Scotland with historical, biographical, genealogical and antiquarian notes, 2v Edinburgh
Page(s): Vol. 2, 165 Held at RCAHMS G.1.31.JER