Alternative Names Craiges House; Craig Castle; Craiges Castle; The Craig; House Of The Craigs; House Of The Craiges
Site type CASTLE, COUNTRY HOUSE
Canmore ID 36228
Site Number NO75NW 19.00
NGR NO 70285 56243
Council ANGUS
Parish CRAIG
Former Region TAYSIDE
Former District ANGUS
Former County ANGUS

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Archaeological Notes

NO75NW 19.00 70285 56243 and 70309 56235

(NO 7028 5623) Craig House (NR)
(NO 7032 5621) Castle (NR) (remains of)
OS 1:10000 map (1975).

NO75NW 19.01 NO 70333 56217 Gatehouse
NO75NW 19.02 NO 70334 56231 Stables
NO75NW 19.03 NO 70279 56274 Walled Garden
NO75SW 19.04 NO 70409 56092 South Gates
NO75NW 19.05 NO c. 702 563 Dovecot

EXTERNAL REFERENCE
Scottish Record Office
House of the Craiges. Contract between Mr James Ogilvie of Cluny and Robert Forrester, plasterer in Dewhouse, regarding work to be done. Additional note on the building of the house.
1691 GD16/27/96
(Undated) information IN NMRS.

Craig House was built in 1637 on part of the footings and incorporating part of the remains of its 16th century predecessor, Craig Castle.
The original building has been an open square in plan with an elongated outer courtyard attached on the east. Two old towers with corbelled parapets and crow-stepped gablets, still occupying the SE and SW angles of the inner courtyard and the enclosing wall stretches between them. The entrance to the inner courtyard has been near the SE tower. The gateway of the outer courtyard with round flanking towers survives on the south.
Craig House is on the L-plan, two storeys and an attic in height, and occupies the north and west ranges of the original courtyard. It bears its date of construction above the entrance on the east wall of the west wing.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1891.

Generally as described the building remains in a fair state of preservation and the house is occupied.
Visited by OS (JLD) 26 June 1958.

Architectural Notes

Knight Frank and Rutley (1986) The Craig, Montrose, Angus: [sale particulars], Edinburgh
Held at RCAHMS D.13.13.CRA.S

MacGibbon and Ross, D and T (1887-92) The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, 5v Edinburgh
Page(s): Vol.4, 289-92 Held at RCAHMS F.5.21.MAC

Savills (1989) The Craig, by Montrose, Angus: [sale particulars], Brechin
Held at RCAHMS D.13.13.CRA.S