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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 714246
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/714246
NT27SW 22 21649 71433
(NT 2164 7142) Old Castle (NR) (rems of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1973)
Old Castle, Saughton Mills or Stenhopes Mills: This building was erected in 1623, the date inscribed above the entrance. Originally, it was the mansion of Patrick Eleis or Ellis, a burgess of Edinburgh; it is now reduced in area and provides labourers' dwellings. Farm and mill buildings enclose the site on N, E, and S. On plan the structure is a 3-storeyed main block with two wings projecting to W. There are traces of a wing midway along the E lateral wall, and there has been a low building against the N wing. The house is in bad condition (RCAHMS 1929). Some restoration work was carried out on it when it was acquired by the National Trust in 1938. They call it 'Stenhouse Mansion'.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92; RCAHMS 1929, visited 1920; National Trust for Scotland 1959.
Saughton Mill is as described and in a good state of preservation.
Visited by OS (B S) 3 December 1975.
Descheduled.
Information from Historic Scotland, Certificate of Exclusion from Schedule dated 17 October 1991.
