Description

2 lintels of 1603 and 1604 may date building. Repaired and
altered 1853 (dated). Rectangular-plan 3-storey and
attic tower (now reduced in size) (ragged wall fragments to
east); screen wall, formerly part of a courtyard, extends
south from tall, conical-roofed, circular angle turret.
All rubble-built with ashlar dressings. Tower house has
round-headed doorway on south wall, and single roll-moulded
window at each level, dovecot in dormer head. Moulded eaves
cornice; crowstepped gables and coped end stacks. Slate
roofs.
Single light at each level above ground to west gable
and west elevation of angle turret; latter entered by
segmental-arched east-facing door; door above opens onto
parapet walkway of screen wall; doorway, 3 circular hand-gun
ports and 2 slits to west (outer) face of latter; corbelled
and crenellated parapets above linked to conical-roofed
corbelled round turret at south.

Statement of Interest

J T Rochead designed the nearby new Knock Castle circa

1852, and so may also have been responsible for the

alterations to this building.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17830845

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)