Braikie Castle

Braikie Castle is a late 16th century Scottish tower house, midway between Arbroath and Brechin, east of the village of Friockheim in the parish of Kinnell.

It was built for Thomas Fraser of Kinnell the alleged son of the 4th Lord Lovat (as he does not appear in genealogies if true he is an illegitimate son) and is a good example of a fortified laird's house of this period.

The date 1581 forms part of a marriage lintel that combines the armorial crests of the Frasers of Lovat with that of the Kinnaird family, also bearing the initials TF and CK.

[5] The overall form is a four-storey and attic, L-plan house, with the spiral stair in the re-entrant angle.

In incorporates corbelled bartizans and crow-stepped gables, and is distinctively Scottish in concept.