Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Arngomery House
Fortified House (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible), House (Post Medieval), Inscribed Stone (17th Century)
Site Name Arngomery House
Classification Fortified House (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible), House (Post Medieval), Inscribed Stone (17th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Broich
Canmore ID 45374
Site Number NS69NW 8
NGR NS 6401 9501
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/45374
- Council Stirling
- Parish Kippen
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS69NW 8 6401 9501.
Broich House, Kippen, seems to have been surrounded by a rampart and fosse.
Statistical Account (OSA) 1796
The old house of Broich, which stood in front but a little west of the site of the mansion house of Arngomery, was demolished in 1852. In front of the house was a fosse or ditch.
W Chrystal 1903
A carved stone, apparently a lintel, inscribed IE 1686 AL, has been built into the S. side of the transe that gives access to the stable yard at Arngomery. It is believed to have come from an old building which formerly stood on the site.
RCAHMS 1963
Arngomery mansion was built in 1812 upon the site of Broich House.
Name Book 1860
The date of Arngomery House in unknown. The inscribed stone in the stables was brought to Broich by the Leckie-Ewing family who bought the estate in 1753. It is said to have come from an earlier family seat in the vicinity of Balloch, Dumbartonshire (Col. J G MacKellar, Arngomery House). There are no visible traces of an earlier building, nor of a fosse, at Arngomery. The date-stone, as described by RCAHMS, has been cemented into the stable wall (at NS 6401 9495) and appears to be a later insertion.
Visited by OS (DS) 25 March 1957
As described by Stagg.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 24 September 1968
Field Visit (July 1978)
Broich NS 639 950 NS69NW 8
The old house of Broich 'seems to have been surrounded with a rampart and fosse'. It probably stood immediately to the W of the 19th-century house of Arngomery.
RCAHMS 1979, visited July 1978
(Stat Acct, xvi ii, 1796, 329; Chrystal 1903, 22 and 49)
