Castle-Grant, a mansion in Cromdale parish, Inverness-shire, 2¼ miles W of the river Spey, and 2½ NNE of Grantown. A plain old castellated edifice, consisting of a high quadrangular five-storied pile, with lower lateral wings, it underwent extensive repairs and improvements about 1836; it contains a superb dining-room, 47 feet by 27; and its extensive grounds are finely adorned with venerable trees, and command an imposing prospect, bounded on the sky-line by the Grampians. On 5 Sept. 1860, the Queen and Prince Consort drove incognito to Castle-Grant-'a fine (not Highland-looking) park, with a very plain-looking house, like a factory.' Castle-Grant is the ancestral seat of the Grants of Grant, of whom Sir Lewis Alex. Grant, Bart., succeeded in 1811 to the lands and earldom of Seafield; his great-nephew Ian Charles Grant Ogilvie, eighth Earl of Seafield since 1701 (b. 1851; suc. 1881), holds in the shire 160,224 acres, valued at £16,478 per annum. See also Cullen and Balmacaan.
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