Cumstoun Castle

Tower House (Medieval)

Site Name Cumstoun Castle

Classification Tower House (Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Barony Of Twynholm; Compstone Castle; Cumstoun House Policies

Canmore ID 64129

Site Number NX65SE 9

NGR NX 68220 53259

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/64129

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SC 1671280

Oblique aerial view centred on the country house with tower-house and garden adjacent, taken from the S.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

11/12/2000

DP 070704

General oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House and policies, taken from the W.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

DP 070708

General oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House and policies, taken from the E.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

DP 070709

General oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House and policies, taken from the ENE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

DP 104715

General oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House and policies, taken from the SSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

15/8/2011

DP 070705

General oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House and policies, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

DP 070707

General oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House and policies, taken from the SSE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

DP 070710

General oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House and policies, taken from the NE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

DP 070721

Oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House, taken from the NNW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

DP 104711

General oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House and policies, taken from the NNW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

15/8/2011

DP 104714

Oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

15/8/2011

DP 104716

Oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House, taken from the SSE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

15/8/2011

DP 070706

General oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House and policies, taken from the S.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

SC 1671283

Oblique aerial view centred on the country house with tower-house and garden adjacent, taken from the WSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

11/12/2000

SC 1671285

Oblique aerial view centred on the country house with tower-house and garden adjacent, taken from the SSE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

11/12/2000

SC 2465696

Cumstoun Castle, NX65SE 9, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

DP 070716

Oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House, taken from the SE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

SC 1633582

View from SW.

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List C Survey

1975

DP 070718

Oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House, taken from the NE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

SC 1229161

General view from SW.

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1925

SC 1671282

Oblique aerial view centred on the country house with tower-house and garden adjacent, taken from the NNW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

11/12/2000

SC 2465697

Cumstoun Castle, NX65SE 9, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

DP 070712

Oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House, taken from the WSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

DP 070715

Oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House, taken from the S.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

DP 070717

Oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House doocot, taken from the ENE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

DP 070719

Oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House, taken from the NNE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

DP 070720

Oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House doocot, taken from the NNE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

8/6/2009

DP 104717

Oblique aerial view of Cumstoun House, taken from the ESE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

15/8/2011

SC 1633583

View from NE.

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List C Survey

1975

SC 1671281

Oblique aerial view centred on the country house with tower-house and garden adjacent, taken from the NE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

11/12/2000

SC 1671284

Oblique aerial view centred on the country house with tower-house and garden adjacent, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

11/12/2000

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Administrative Areas

Council Dumfries And Galloway
Parish Twynholm
Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
Former District Stewartry
Former County Kirkcudbrightshire

Archaeology Notes

NX65SE 9 68220 53259

(NX 6822 5325) Compstone Castle (NR) (in ruins)

OS 6" map (1854)

Cumstoun Castle (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map (1946)

For successor and present Cumstoun House and associated buildings, see NX65SE 116.00.

Cumstoun Castle is an oblong building 26 feet by 15 feet 10 inches, within walls averaging 5 feet 9 inches in thickness. It originally contained a basement and three upper storeys and the SW wall still stands to a height of 25 feet. The NE wall has been demolished and the side walls are ruinous. The castle is probably early 16th century, and is recorded in a charter of 1604-5.

RCAHMS 1914; R C Reid 1934.

Cumstoun Castle

(remains of) [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2009.

Architecture Notes

NMRS REFERENCE:

Inventories of Ancient Monuments, Vol 5 Kirkcudbright.

Article 465 p267.

Site visited 1st August 1911.

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