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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 714269
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/714269
NT39NW 14.00 3293 9515.
NT39NW 14.01 NT 3276 9526 Farmsteading
NT39NW 14.02 NT 3286 9505 Dovecot
NT39NW 14.03 NT 3293 9515 Stables
NT39NW 14.04 NT 3295 9527 The Red House
NT39NW 14.05 NT 32813 95493 Gardeners Cottage (Number 1 Cottage)
NT39NW 14.06 NT 32845 95529 Number 2 Cottage
NT39NW 14.07 NT 32850 95534 Number 3 Cottage
For East Lodge and gate piers (NT 3323 9633), see NT39NW 17.
(NT 3293 9515) Wemyss Castle (NR)
OS 6" map, (1966)
Wemyss Castle: This castle, known also as 'The Hall of the Wemyss' and as a 'palace', is an extensive but composite mansion. The oldest part, which is the oblong tower forming a re-entrant in the W front, has been greatly altered and may be considered as not later than the end of the 15th century. The original castle probably occupied only the northern part of the site now built upon, and until the 17th century there were no buildings S of the tower. In the early 16th century, the enclosing walls were rebuilt with a salient round tower on the SE, a rounded projection at the E angle, and a vaulted entrance set between the main tower and that on the SE. In the 17th century, an extension was made on the outside southwards from the SE tower. A westward returning wing was added to this in 1670, and in the 19th century the space between this and the main tower was built over.
RCAHMS 1933.
Wemyss Castle is as described above. Permission was not granted to view this mansion closely. Reconstruction work is at present being carried out: the 19th century porch (on the W front) being demolished and the 17th century frontage being exposed. The remainder of the building, as far as can be ascertained, is in very good condition.
The tower in the gardens of the castle is a tall, slender edifice with a crenellated parapet. It would appear to be a dovecot and is still in use as such. It is of rubble construction and apparently quite old.
Visited by OS (J L D) 6 October 1954.
Wemyss Castle is as described.
Visited by OS (J P) 21 June 1974.
Site recorded by Maritime Fife during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, Kincardine to Fife Ness 1996
