Archaeology Notes

Event ID 709714

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT07NE 17.00 0724 7663.

NT07NE 17.01 NT 07254 76719 Sundial.

NT07NE 17.02 NT 07150 76704 Gate-piers

NT07NE 17.03 NT c. 07248 76729 Sundial parts (possible).

(NT 0724 7663) Craigton House dates from the late 17th century. It is L-shaped on plan and has a stair-tower in the re-entrant angle. The vaulted basement has been filled in and is inaccessible. Above that level are two storeys and attics. The masonry is rubble, harled. The windows have exposed margins slightly moulded. The gables are crow-stepped.

A (?)17th century baluster type sundial is in front of the house. A facetted block of stone, octagonal, with human masks, and a thistle leafage lying nearby, may be another portion of the same dial. The house was built for the Ewings of Craigton, and added to the Hopetoun estate in the 18th century.

RCAHMS 1929, visited 1926; SDD List 1964

Externally this is an uninteresting building. The sundial is of little merit and it is doubtful if the octagonal stone was ever part of it.

Visited by OS (JP) 25 March 1974

Craigton House is depicted on the 1st edition of the 6-inch map (Linlithgowshire, 1856, sheet 6), which shows the following elements in the grounds: a summer house, pumps, well and bowling green as well as the house and home farm.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2005