Archaeology Notes

Event ID 714108

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SE 56 27735 74754

(NT 2771 7474) Lochend House (NAT) on site of Castle (NR)

OS 1/1250 plan, (1953)

The baronial residence of Restalrig stood on a rocky eminence beside Lochend Loch. It was referred to as the "old tower" in 1495, and was perhaps the building said to have been destroyed about 1586 by the Provost of Edinburgh as a reprisal against Logan, the laird. In that case it must have been reconstructed immediately afterwards as a castle is specifically mentioned in the deed by which Lord Balmerino obtained the barony in 1605. This building was demolished in 1816, and Lochend House built on its site, leaving only a much-altered rubble-built fragment attached to the modern house. This fragment has had two storeys, the lower of which was once vaulted, and architectural features date it to the 16th century.

RCAHMS 1951.

This building is generally as described. It is now in use as a Clinic and Nursery.

Visited by OS (S F S) 3 December 1975.