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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 712280
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/712280
NT16SE 1 1936 6243.
(NT 1936 6247) Howlet's House (NR) (remains of)
OS 6" map (1961)
Kerr and Coles suggest that 'Howlet's House' may have been a chapel, with a priest's house attached, the chapel building being at the extreme E, while the building of which remains are still to be seen represented the priest's house.
It is described by the RCAHMS as a ruinous structure, dating probably from the end of the 16th century. Only the 3 1/2ft thick lateral walls of a tower, 21 1/2ft square, remain, standing 15ft high, showing that the lowest storey was barrel-vaulted. Remains of other walls exist as shown on plan.
Kerr remembered the entire E gable, with a stone basin built into it, and an entire window, also the complete vaulted roof. These have fallen and been removed. There was no local knowledge as to the derivation of the name in 1852.
Name Book 1852; A Kerr 1879; F R Coles 1899; RCAHMS 1929, visited 1915.
