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"Duncraig
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Duncraig Castle, Scotland
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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 .
For more details phone 07723 538941 or fill in an
online
feedback form
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 .
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more details fill in a Feedback
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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 .
Stay
in a romantic Scottish castle
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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