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Duncraig Castle, Scotland

Duncraig Castle, Scotland

Duncraig Castle , near Plockton , Ross-shire is available for weddings for the 2005 season . The castle can host the wedding ceremony and reception . A honeymoon suite is available . Wedding parties of up to 100 people can be catered for .
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Duncraig Castle , near Plockton , Ross-shire has now been sold to a family from the Midlands who plan to develop it as a wedding venue . For more details fill in a Feedback form The castle has been empty for 12 years . Buy prints of Duncraig Castle The castle was owned by the Highlands Council . It used to be a catering college and was used as a base when the BBC series Hamish McBeth was filmed in Plockton .

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You can book the complete wing of Duncraig Castle . Climb to the top of the tower for stunning views of the loch , Plockton and the surrounding mountains .

Accommodation consists of a living room , 3 double rooms , one ensuite bathroom and one family bathroom . Bed and breakfast is included . From Duncraig you can visit the world famous Three Chimneys restaurant on the Isle of Skye .

The castle stands in 40 acres of woodland overlooking the mouth of Loch Carron.
After 13 years almost entirely in mothballs, the castle went on the market last June for offers over £450,000. Prior to that, it was a college of cookery and domestic science. The Highland Council acquired Duncraig from the former Ross and Cromarty County Council to which it was bequeathed in 1946 for educational purposes. Last year the council voted to sell the property and pledged to use the the proceeds from the sale for educational purposes. The castle furnishing and art works are expected be to auctioned at a separate sale. The £751,000 combined bid for the castle, cottage and boathouse is known to have been lodged by a consortium of businessmen with connections with Inverness and Skye. They planned to convert the castle and the college annexe building to provide luxury flats, and to develop the cottage and boathouse into a gallery and possibly a museum.
It is understood the committee members were concerned that because the castle is a listed building the planning procedure could be long and drawn out. Samuel Dobson, a Nottingham builder and one of the brothers who bid £505,000 for the castle, said their plans were to divide the castle into four residences. His wife Perlin told the Free Press that the family was "attracted to the way of life in the area". She said:
"Though I have never been in Scotland before, all of the brothers grew up in the countryside and we are looking forward to leaving the city life." She said the extended family included "eight or nine children", all of whom will attend school locally if the bid is successful. At least two of the brothers expected to maintain their business interests in the Nottingham-Leicester area, she added.

The castle includes a reception hall, an inner hall, a drawing and dining room, a library-study, 29 bedrooms, nine bathrooms extensive kitchens and domestic quarters. The property also comes with a laundry building, a sports hall in the college annexe and a cottage in a courtyard that was once part of the castle stables.

It also includes two islands and two-and-a-half kilometres of frontage on Loch Carron.

 

 

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