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Field Visit
Date April 1985
Event ID 1156549
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156549
Crosbie House NS 3439 3008 NS 33 SW 7
The remains of a late 15th- or early 16th- century tower-house are situated in the policies of Fullarton House (demolished in 1966), 90m SW of the stable-block. The tower was oblong on plan and measured 9.6m by 5.3m within walls 2m thick and now surviving to a height of 3m. A mural stair led directly to the first floor from the entrance at the W end of the SW wall, and a door opened directly to the vaulted basement, which may formerly have been divided by a cross-wall. The basement was lit by two splayed single-light windows and was furnished with an aumbry; a doorway was subsequently opened at the E end of the NE wall. With the completion of Fullarton House, sometime after 1745, the tower was partially dismantled and the remaining portion was converted for use as an icehouse. The remains of a rectangular dovecot (7.35m by 4.3m overall) probably of 17th century date, are situated 64m to the SW (NS 3434 3004). From the 16th century Crosbie was the seat of the Fullartons.
RCAHMS 1985, visited April 1985.
(Paterson 1863-6, i, 471-2; Gillespie 1939, 141; Dillon 1954, 72; Strawhorn 1959, 293-4; Davis 1984, 16).
