URPoint Details
Car park; shop; tearoom; picnic area and children's adventure playground. Disabled car parking adjacent to castle. Access to ground floor accessible with four 5" steps to negotiate to reach kitchen broad staircase with wheelchair carrier gives access to main public rooms. Shop has direct access on level from back door. Four 5" steps to reach coffee room from shop one 5" step to reach coffee room from front door, ramp available.
Set in parkland, Brodie Castle is old but the family association with the area is even older.
Malcolm IV first endowed the Brodies with their lands in 1160 and a Thane Brodie is recorded in the reign of Alexander III.
The castle was damaged in 1645 during the Montrose campaigns.
The oldest part is 16th century 'Z' plan, with additions made in the 17th and 19th centuries.
The house contains fine French furniture, English, Continental and Chinese porcelain, and a major collection of paintings ranging from 17th century Dutch to 18th century and early 19th century English watercolours and Scottish Colourists. The house and its collections demonstrate and impressive continuity which bears witness to Brodie's long unbroken family history.
A woodland walk has been laid
- Type:
- Landmark