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Halltown Of Nemphlar
Bastle (Medieval)
Site Name Halltown Of Nemphlar
Classification Bastle (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Nemphlar, 66 Hall Road
Canmore ID 46652
Site Number NS84SE 84
NGR NS 8561 4440
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/46652
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Lanark
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS84SE 84 8561 4440.
A survey of this house shows it to be of 16th to 17th Century construction and it is interpreted as of the bastle tradition and style of building. The original masonry of the house is almost entire and the barrel vaulted basement is unaltered with the exception of a blocked up stair.
A lintel stone, excavated in the garden, is alleged to have come from a fireplace in the south gable, upstairs. It shows a shield with the initials GF and DL and the date 1607, perhaps Forrest and Lockhart, prominent local families in the 17th century.
Construction of local sandstone, built as random rubble. Upper floor modernised and still occupied.
T Ward 1986
