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Latitude: 54.7442 / 54°44'39"N
Longitude: -4.9646 / 4°57'52"W
OS Eastings: 209272
OS Northings: 542835
OS Grid: NX092428
Mapcode National: GBR GJ35.BPM
Mapcode Global: WH2T6.Q02V
Plus Code: 9C6QP2VP+M4
Entry Name: Folly Tower, Logan House
Listing Name: Logan, Folly Tower
Listing Date: 17 December 1979
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 346733
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13562
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200346733
Location: Kirkmaiden
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Parish: Kirkmaiden
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Folly
Early to earlier 19th century. Squat circular crenellated tower.
Rubble. Angled rubble merlons to crenellated parapet (some merlons disintegrating). Curved forestair clasped to outside of tower to S; parapet to forestair, with angled rubble coping; coped course below forestair parapet; short length of coped wall adjoined at foot of forestair to SE. Rubble walls, with angled rubble coping, adjoined to tower to NE and SW.
Formerly listed as "Logan House Tower". The tower is marked as "Round Tower" on the OS Map of 1848, as "Tower" on the OS Map of 1906, and as "Folly Tower" on the OS Map of 1978. The tower is becoming dilapidated (1992). See separate listings for Logan: Bridge; Hen Knowe Cottages;
Logan House; Logan Botanic Garden; Logan Court (former Coach House and Stables); Logan Fish Pond, Cottage and Bathing Hut.
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