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Bardowie Castle

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Tower House (Medieval)

Site Name Bardowie Castle

Classification Tower House (Medieval)

Canmore ID 44505

Site Number NS57SE 6

NGR NS 57819 73720

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council East Dunbartonshire
  • Parish Baldernock (Strathkelvin)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Strathkelvin
  • Former County Stirlingshire

Archaeology Notes

NS57SE 6.00 57819 73720

(NS 5782 7372) Bardowie Castle (NR)

OS 6" map, (1971).

NS57SE 6.01 NS 57971 73801 Farmhouse; Farmsteading (Bardowie Mains)

Bardowie Castle consists of a tower, evidently completed by 1566, and additions made from the late 17th or early 18th century onwards; the latter are still inhabited as a modern mansion. The tower, which is still complete, is oblong on plan and measures 32'2" x 27'. It attains a height of four storeys, the uppermost one being constructed mainly within the roof. Its walls vary from 6'5" to 8'3" in thickness on the ground floor; the masonry is random rubble.

RCAHMS 1963.

Bardowie Castle is as described by the RCAHMS. The tower is still partly inhabited.

Visited by OS (R D), 16 August 1966.

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Architecture Notes

NMRS REFERENCE:

NS57SE 6.00 5782 7372 Bardowie Castle

NS57SE 6.01 57971 73801 Bardowie Mains

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Glasgow, Mitchell Library, J. Maclehose' Country Houses - 1 print

SRO

Repairs to house and offices. Payment of #60 to James Robertson Esq. Account Book. 1837 GD161/Box 21

Non-Guardianship Sites Plan Collection, DC23069, 1953.

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