Dalcross Castle

Lovely at any season, Dalcross Castle’s pink sandstone walls glow in the clear Highland light. Set in an 850 acre private estate, the castle offers tranquil seclusion yet is only a fifteen minute drive from Inverness Airport and Inverness itself, the ‘Capital of the Highlands’.

The castle, built in 1620 comes complete with turrets, massive studded oak gates and doors, a stone spiral stairwell, fireplaces, arrow slits and shot holes as well as a magnificent Great Hall ideal for entertaining up to 50 guests. It epitomises the romantic Scottish castle down to its historic associations with two great Highland clans, the Frasers who built it and the Macintoshes who held it during the Jacobite uprising of 1745. (The head of the clan hosted the Duke of Cumberland and his troops at Dalcross on the eve of the Battle of Culloden while the Laird’s wife raised her own troops in support of Bonnie Prince Charlie!)

The owners have brought the accommodation into the 21st century with beautiful fabrics, superb bathrooms and a spacious state of the art kitchen, while retaining the castle’s special atmosphere with subtle lighting, fine antique furnishings and art works. Guests may linger by the log fires or in the extensive gardens, first laid out in the 18th century and now planted with many rare and unusual specimens.