Kinblethmont

NO64NW 13 63762 46996

(NO 6376 4699) Kinblethmont (NR) (remains of)

OS 6" map (1970)

NO64NW 13.01 NO 6387 4705 House

NO64NW 13.02 NO 6408 4717 Farmstead (Home Farm)

NO64NW 13.03 Centred NO 6403 4692 Walled Gardens

NO64NW 13.04 NO 63195 46871 Farmstead (West Mains)

NO64NW 13.05 NO 63012 46690 Cottage (The Barracks)

NO64NW 13.06 NO 62703 47506 Kennels

NO64NW 13.07 NO 63243 45812 Lodge

NO64NW 13.08 NO 63734 47052 Offices

Part of the old Kinblethmont house still remains 10' high and vaulted with walls 5' thick. The new mansion was built in 1859.

A J Warden 1882; Name Book 1861

Kinblethmont is a crumbling L-shaped ruin measuring 12m x 5m with entrance in the re-entrant angle. The walls stand to a height of c. 3.0m, and the building is partly vaulted and partly covered with a corrugated metal roof. The whole is so densely overgrown with ivy and laurel, and surrounded by trees, that close examination was made very difficult. Some of the walls have narrow slit apertures in them, and are constructed of rubble masonry. An inscribed stone on the old stable- building states that the original house was built c.1650-80, and was pulled down, the stones being used to built the present mansion about 1850-60.

Visited by OS (JLD) 12 June 1958