Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

CASTLE OF MEY AND GARDEN WALLSLB1797

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Date Added
13/04/1971
Local Authority
Highland
Planning Authority
Highland
Parish
Canisbay
NGR
ND 29032 73889
Coordinates
329032, 973889

Description

Probably 1566-72, with various 17th, 18th, 19th and mid

20th century additions and alterations. 3-storey and attic.

3-bay centre block with 16th century projecting 5-storey

square tower at SE, and 2-storey, wide single bay crenellated

dining room wing at west gable with angle bartizans.

(c. 1954). SE tower with angle bartizans, crenellated

with modern glazing. 2 wings project at rear forming narrow

wallhead and regular later single bay fenestration in south

elevation. 1819 (William Burn, architect) Baronial porch,

with round-arched detailing, and entrance hall fill SW

with round-headed entrance with flanking round-headed

windows and double leaf doors, in projecting canted porch;

5-light arcaded window above entrance. 2-storey wing

projects at rear, forming with main castle elevation, 2

sides of high walled rear court, with round-headed entrance

under crenellated wallhead.

Piended dormers rise through wallhead; sash and case

window with multi-pane glazing; gun loops in south elevation

of centre block and in tower; coped end and ridge stacks;

slate roofs.

Statement of Special Interest

Property of H.M. The Queen Mother. Built by George, 4th

Earl of Caithness, and passed to his 2nd son, William, who

founded the line of Sinclair of Mey Name subsequently

changed to Barrogill Castle, but reverted to Castle of

Mey when purchased by H.M. The Queen Mother, c. 1953.

William Burn addition of 1819 largely removed during 195

alterations. Crest of H.M. The Queen Mother (carved by

Hew Lorimer, circa 1954) over 1st

floor dining room window at west.

References

Bibliography

NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, xv, (1840) p. 27. RCAHMS INVENTORY

(1911) pp. 9-11. p1. IV, fig. 3, (plan). IMPERIAL GAZETTEER

OF SCOTLAND, i, 240. Donald Omand, (ed.) THE CAITHNESS BOOK

(1972) P. 160, p1. 27.

Howard Colvin, A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF BRITISH

ARCHITECTS 1600-1840 (1978) p. 162. National Monuments

Record of Scotland.

H Fenwick, Castle of Mey, SCOTTISH TATLER July/Aug. 1979.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

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