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Architecture Notes

Event ID 865225

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/865225

Description:

Remains of towerhouse reconstructed following fire in 1593 with - essentially 17th Century - ranges extending N;

abandoned presumably when Raehills was built in the 1780s; walls of N ranges rebuilt during course of 1980s excavations to uniform height (several feet high) and covered with concrete screed. Tower has vaulted basement.

Notes:

Change of Category B to C(S) 22.2.88.

Scheduled Monument 28 February 2000.

References:

MacGibbon and Ross, CASTELLATED AND DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE, vol IV, 1892 (1977 reprint), p. 399; RCAHM INVENTORY, 1920, no. 315

De-listed September 2009

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