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Lossiemouth House is a B listed building and regarded as one of the oldest houses in Lossiemouth, being built in C. 1780. Being the property of Lady…
One of Morays most interesting heritage museums. It holds many fascinating artefacts. The museum also contains the reconstructed study of Ramsay…
This is a B listed newly renovated community run Town Hall built in 1880. Please note only the ground floor of the Town Hall is fully accessible.
The Moray Golf Club is celebrating it's 125th year of opening. Learn about the history of this fascinating golf club which famously banned Ramsay…
***UPDATE: TOURS OF COVESEA LIGHTHOUSE ARE NOW FULLY BOOKED FOR MORAY DOORS OPEN DAY 2019, SORRY. HOWEVER YOU CAN STILL COME ALONG TO SEE THE GROUNDS…
In 1924 Ramsay MacDonald became the UK’s first Labour Prime Minister. He had this house built for his mother in 1908. Most rooms have original…
Lossiemouth Public Library this year celebrates 110 years since its opening in 1904. This Carnegie funded building retains many of its original…
Built in the 1860s, the interior was extensively renovated in 2006 to accommodate the Justice of the Peace Court. Guided tours at 10:30, 12:30 and…
Greyfriars Convent is a large complex of buildings with the chapel as the focus. Listed Category A.Founded in 1479 for the Franciscan Friars,…
Walled burial ground containing ruins of Kinloss Abbey.Surviving fragments of Abbey, dating from 13th to 16th centuries include portions of south…
Explore Scotland’s oldest independent museum. Brief tours behind the scenes to see the stores, you can find out about the building's past and plans…
Listed Category A structure, dating originally to at least the 13th century. The church is roofless but includes at its west end the base of a 14th…
A category B listed Italian Renaissance style museum built to commemorate Hugh Falconer, fossil collector, botanist and contemporary of Charles…
Built in 1959-60 in neo-Georgian style, a gift of the Besse family in memory of Antonin Besse, this building houses the School’s Fire and…
Acoustic screens and flexible seating rostra allow the 200 seat theatre to be converted to three separate teaching and rehearsal spaces so that the…
Designed as an open square by George Kennedy in 1939 using timber naval construction, the walls taper outwards from base to eaves and the main…
Designed in 1966 by Patrick Huggins, a former student, after a competition amongst three architectural practices.Built in the jagged profile, ribbed…
The Beehive Doocot is listed category B.It is close to the Round Square and is of the beehive type dating from c1600. The Beehive Doocot contains…
Unusual circular former steading and service range or square of offices built in the late 17th century. Predominately two-storey, the alternating…
Built as a mortuary chapel for Sir Robert Gordon, 3rd Baronet of Gordonstoun who succeeded his father in 1688. Educated at St Andrew’s University,…
Altyre has been owned since the 14th century by the Comyn (Cumming) family (Gordon Cumming from 1795).In 1891 Sir William Gordon Cumming married his…
From c1900 onwards some attractive villas were built close to the shore between Kinloss and the village.The Roundhouse was recently completed to an…
Mid-19th Century Commercial Icehouse built to support the local Coastal Salmon Netting industry. The underground chambers were used to store natural…
This former post office has 18th-century cellar/storage accessed from the road. The row of houses, of 19th-century date, are said to have been built…
U-plan range of dwellings (now flatted) entered through an arched pend. Former warehouse with stables and, the building served as station for the…
Built in 1843 as a Free Church to a design by John Urquhart (1795-1869), architect/builder. A native of Forres, Urquhart worked for many years in…
The Institute is a former chandlery. Any profits from the sale of refreshments during Doors Open Day will go to installing an electrical mechanism for…
Findhorn village dates from 1702, but there was an earlier settlement inundated by tidal waters.Findhorn’s importance in the 18th and early 19th…
Chaste Greek South façade of 1835 in style of William Robertson of Elgin fronting and infilling early 18C U-plan courtyard house which itself backs…
Founded as a house of Valliscaulian monks in 1230 by Alexander II. Bought by the Marquess of Bute in 1889 and gifted in 1948 to the Benedictine monks…
Picturesque Italianate group of detached farm steading buildings forming a courtyard with a Club House range. Possibly designed by Archibald Simpson c…
Started in 1960 by Cathy Reid, who sadly died last year, this is an intriguing and extensive collection of everyday objects relating to past life in…
Mid 18C farmhouse with good quality interior woodwork, panelled doors, moulded ceiling joists, box beds and cupboards.
Listed Category A. Picturesque castellated mansion designed by Thomas Mackenzie, Elgin, built 1846-47 for Admiral Archibald Duff. Fine interior with…
Listed Category A.Sited on outskirts of Dufftown by the Dullan Water, the church has 13C rectangular core with later north aisle, forming T-plan.Tomb…
Listed Category B. Established in 1786 as Milton Distillery: 1695 armorial and other fragments from Milton tower re-set exterior of office block.…
Two hump-back arches survive of this former 3-arch bridge probably constructed in the early 1700s. Third arch demolished by the 'Great spate' floods…
Established by George Smith of Drumin in 1824 and moved to current site in 1858. Manager's House and Visitors' Centre (former barley loft) are the…
Generously proportioned and recently refurbished, the Hall was the venue of last year's award winning Tea in the Park.
1827, designed in Gothic revival manner by John Gall, Aberdeen, but not completed until 1844. East end first served as presbytery and then local…
Formerly named Braes of Glenlivet distillery, Braeval was built in l973-4 by Chivas in an interesting style recalling traditional l9C Speyside whisky…
Delightful Scottish Romanesque church with richly decorated interior designed 1906-7 by the Edwardian architect, John Kinross, financed by the Marquis…
Completed in 2004 at a cost of £1.2m and designed by TCD Architects, Aberdeen, this impressive building combines all of the facilities which used to…
From 1730 to 1737 Iron was mined here and the ore carried by pack horse over the hills to Nethybridge for smelting. In 1841 the mine was opened again…
Home of Gordons of Croughly (there was an earlier Croughly upstream of the Conglass Water). James Gordon built some or all of the old house after…
Founded by the Duke of Gordon in 1776, Tomintoul is situated on the line of the old military road built following the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. The…
Glenlivet is the largest property owned by the Crown Estate encompassing an area of 58,000 acres. From the 16-20C, Glenlivet belonged to the Gordon…
Built by George Mathewson, Dundee, architect, replacing a small chapel outside the village. The east arm of the cruciform layout serves as presbytery…
Parliamentary church built to standard design by Thomas Telford in 1826 of which the bellcote survives. Remodelled in Gothic Revival manner by…
Built during construction of the military road through Avonside in 1754, this substantial bridge provided the main route across the crystal clear…
Specialist maker of sporting rifles situated at back of Strathavon Lodge (not open). Rifles are an essential tool in deer management as well as sport.…
Simple parish kirk set in burial ground close by the River Avon. No longer in ecclesiastical use.
A stone-lined underground chamber, possibly built as a souterrain in the late Bronze Age, but thought to have been used more recently as an illicit…
The home base of Tilly Smith, who runs the Cairngorm Reindeer Herd. This is a working farm with a fascinating range of unusual farm animals including…
A part of the Cairngorms Moorland Project which aims to raise awareness of moorland management in and around the Cairngorms national Park.
The steep wooded gorge of the river Avon forms a panoramic setting for bridge by Robert Burn (1800) and Baronial Revival gate lodge with arched…
Between 1717-1799, the recusant, isolated Catholic seminary at Scalan educated and prepared boys for the priesthood, sending them to the Scots College…
Listed Category B.Tall, 3-storey mansion over raised basement, pedimented south west front with tuscan columned, pedimented doorpiece, restored…
Listed Category A dated 1705, restored and interior refurbished by John Kinross, 1900-01. Small Gothic church with large pointed windows with…
Victorian walled garden specialising in organic grown vegetables and flowers. Linked to church, road and railway by footpath passing within sight of…
Listed Category B.Traditional rectangular church with paired tall windows in symmetrical south front flanking pulpit; built in 1820 on earlier site.…
Listed Category A. Large Gothic buttressed church with square tower on dominant site; designed by the Edinburgh architect, James Gillespie Graham to…
Exhibition devoted to the village, its environment and history, prepared by pupils and staff.
One of Britain's oldest and largest walled kitchen gardens. It is currently being restored to its former glory complete with cafe, children's play…
Listed Category A. 1845-6, Thomas Mackenzie, architect, Elgin in Neo-Tudor style. Impressive building with pinnacle wallhead and substantial oriel…
Listed Category C(S). D & R Macmillan, Aberdeen. Gothic former Free Church of Scotland replacing the earlier one of 1845 in South Street. The…
Listed Category B Site of earlier church dedicated to St Rufus, superseded by present larger church. Interesting 17C and later carved tombstones. The…
Listed Category A, 1609, repaired 1822; probably the oldest extant bridge in Moray, built by Thomas Moray and Janet Lindsay , a 'worthy couple' living…
Listed Category B. The surviving portion of Milton Castle, c 1480 and later; simple 2-storey rubble tower over vaulted ground floor. Exterior viewing…
Listed Category B. Originally the Free Church of Scotland designed by A & W Reid, Elgin. Plain Gothic revival design and simple interior with…
The Pluscarden congregation formerly worshiped in part of the Abbey, but were obliged to move in 1898 when it was bought by the Marquis of Bute. He…
Built in 1805 for John Gordon Peterkin and continuously owned by the same family ever since. Said to be designed by William Stark but extensively…
The Findhorn Community was established in 1962 with a vision of a better world. It is now home to around 400 people with events and conferences…
Dr. P Hetherington. Early 19C: home of the late Tony Hetherington who (c.1980) restored and enlarged the cottage and remodelled its tiny interior.
This Gothic church was designed by Alexander Ross, 1882 replacing the small, plain building (1808) behind Land Street.Amongst the fittings is the…
Reconstructed 2002 by volunteer members.
Unlisted 1862. Now used by the Keith & Dufftown Railway running trains the eleven mile journey each summer weekend.
Unlisted. Alexander Ross. Simple, small Gothic Revival building dating from 1880.
Listed Category B, 1825, designed by William Robertson, Elgin. Simple rectangle with buttressed and crenellated street gable with flanking archways as…
Established in 1823, though most buildings date from c 1860. Fine 3-storey former malt barn and kilns.
Celebrated tower house with Scottish baronial additions. A substantial mansion dating variously from 1567 to 1852. Built originally by Alexander 12th…
Mid 18C mansion with substantial mid 19C additions. Attractive wooden staircase and fine panelled library. Interesting plasterwork and spectacular…
Former manse designed in 1823 by John Patterson of Edinburgh on unusual butterfly plan with single storey outer wings. Circular entrance hall with…
Designed in 1911 by J M Dick Peddie as a replacement for Blervie Mains House. A fine Edwardian classical 2 storey mansion with simply detailed but…
Built in 1793 to replace the ancient St Michael's described as 'a very ancient fabric, thatched with heath and without windows save two or three…
An extensive range of crowstepped farm offices built by Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun in the late 16C to resemble the more famous Round Square…
Listed Category B. 1826-8 designed by James Gillespie, architect, Edinburgh who was also responsible for Dr. Gray's Hospital, Elgin. Gothic Revival…
1834, Archibald Simpson, Aberdeen, architect with later alterations by Alexander Ross. Inverness. It originally combined school and chapel, the school…
Listed Category A. 1772 John Baxter, architect. The hollow square originally accommodated fishermen, stables, cooperage and stores all serving the…
Listed Category A. Dated 1783. The squat chimney serves the large hearth where salmon were par-boiled in large pars. Exterior viewing only.
Tugnet is reputed to the largest icehouse in Scotland. There are 6 vaulted chambers with cobbled floors and drainage sumps. Ice was collected during…
Listed Category A. 1798 John Baxter Edinburgh. Pedimented, porticoed classical church dominating The Square, replacing the old Bellie Parish church at…
Designed by Bishop Kyle and the Architect, Alexander Ellis the foundations were laid in 1851 and the church completed in 1857. The resulting fine…
1.5 miles north of Forres. Built in 1818 by owner General William Grant, it has a superficial resemblance to the 18th Century “Great Houses” of the…
Come and conquer Nelson's Tower and enjoy one of the best views across Moray. Completed in 1812 in memory of Admiral Nelson, the tower offers…
A large country house, conservatory and walled garden dating from 1893. The house and garden are now run as a social enterprise promoting sustainable…
Designed in 1841 by Patrick Wilson but soon afterwards remodelled by Thomas Mackenzie in Italianate style. One of the older Scottish Episcopal Church…
Built in 1876, the Episcopal Church of All Saints in Buckie and the elaborately carved freestone font were designed by Alexander Ross of Inverness.The…
Listed Category BSite of medieval bridge, in turn crossed by ferry boat and then suspension bridge in 1830 (replaced 1952): 'pontage' or tollhouse…