Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 560640
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/560640
Bassendean has been the seat of the Home family since 1583. Bassendean House was built in the seventeenth century and is still in domestic use. A fragment of an earlier square tower-house can still be seen at its southern end.
Bassendean House is a three-storeyed structure to which additions have been made over the centuries. A greenhouse was constructed on one of the remaining tower house walls during the nineteenth century. This was removed in the mid-twentieth century, and turrets added. A sense of unity is given to the building by the use of similar roofing slates and crow-stepped gables throughout.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project