Archaeology Notes

Event ID 719236

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT53SW 14 53202 34375

Not to be confused with Darnick, Tower Road, Fisher's Tower (NT 5320 3434), for which see NT53SW 11.

See also NT53SW 18.

(NT 5321 3437) Tower (NR).

OS 25" map (1964)

Darnick Tower, a 16th century tower-house of the Heiton family standing on the site of a predecessor destroyed in 1545. The tower is built on the T-plan with a 3-storey oblong main block running E-W and a small stair wing projecting from near the middle of the south wall. A low, possibly original, outbuilding, containing a doorway, formerly projected from the west half of the south wall but this has been removed. The tower is of rubble with freestone dressings and was formerly harled.

The entrance is in the stair wing and bears the date 1595. The windows have been enlarged, the bartizan and garret have been rebuilt and an extension has been added to the east side, but otherwise the tower retains much of its original character.

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1892; RCAHMS 1956, visited 1933.

This tower is in good condition and inhabited.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 30 January 1960

This tower, generally as described, is well preserved and used as a dwelling.

Surveyed at 1:1250.

Visited by OS (TRG) 1 March 1977