Architecture Notes

Event ID 833275

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/833275

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NS55NW - 499, 563

The building at Darnley Mill appears to be that described in Crawford's account of the Stewarts and in Taylor's The Levern Delineated, as the reputed "abode of the Earl of Lennox, at Darnley Toll Bar", presumably a late residence of the Stewarts of Darnley, before they sold out to the Earl of Moray. Taylor's sketch shows the corner turret part concealed by thatch. It was originally two storeys high, but reduced c.1815: it had the inscription on a window DS IS DS 1614. On Roy's map this is the position of Darnley. There is now a housing estate immediately west, and north of the A726 are high rise flats.

Information from Mr T Welsh, 1983.