Archaeology Notes

Event ID 703734

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/703734

NS52SW 4 50031 23131

(NS 5003 2313) Auchinleck Old House (NR) (remains of)

OS 6" map (1967)

For successor and present Auchinleck House (NS 5072 2301) and associated buildings, see NS52SW 16.00.

The Old House or Place of Auchinleck (NSA 1845, J Chrystal) was built in the early 17th century (J Paterson 1863) as a successor to Auchinleck Castle (NS42SE 2), and was itself replaced about 1760 by the present Auchinleck House (at NS 5072 2301 - see NS52SW 16). Now ruinous, it has evidently been L-shaped on plan, with a tower in the re-entrant angle. It was surrounded by a high wall.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1892; SDD List 1963

This building, now in ruins, has walls built of roughly squared local red sandstone, standing to a height of 6.0m in places. Two barrel-vaulted apartments remain entire on the ground floor. The whole is overgrown with trees and ivy.

Visited by OS (JFC) 21 June 1954

The overgrown and decaying ruins are as described.

Visited by OS (MJF) 10 November 1980