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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

General view from SW.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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