URPoint Details
Exhibition room; video; shop; tearoom and picnic area. Disabled car parking close to castle for disabled drivers disabled passengers may be set down at entrance and car returned to car park. Disabled access to ground floor only which includes crypt, audio visual room and kitchen.
Garden is accessible and on one level with gravelled paths. Main entrance has one step, alternative entrance without step available on request. Tearoom in East Tower is accessible small shop on ground floor in Castle has one step down.
Kellie Castle is a very fine example of the domestic architecture of Lowland Scotland.
The oldest part is believed to date from 1360, but the building in its present form is mainly 16th and early 17th century and was completed about 1606.
Sympathetically restored by the Lorimer family around 1878, it contains magnificent plaster ceilings, painted panelling and furniture designed by Sir Robert Lorimer.
The layout of the organic walled garden is late Victorian and contains a fine collection of old-fashioned roses, fruit trees and herbaceous plants.
The castle is easily accessible from Anstruther along country roads through some picturesque countryside.
- Type:
- Landmark