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Garrion Tower
Date 28 March 2008
Event ID 908809
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/908809
2-storey with exposed basement to rear, 6-bay, rectangular-plan, L-plan tower house to left with 2 Victorian additions to right. Large stair turret to centre, crowstepped gables. Yellow ashlar sandstone partially harled. Roll-moulded ashlar margins to openings.
Originally the pre-Reformation summer residence of the Bishops of Glasgow and Galloway. The original seventeenth century tower house to the far left was much expanded over two phases in the late nineteenth century to treble its original size. (Historic Scotland)
