Almond Castle
Almond Castle (also The Haining or Haining Castle ) is a ruined castle 5 km west of Linlithgow and north of the Union Canal in the Scottish county of West Lothian . The L-shaped building dates from the 15th century.
history
The property originally belonged to the Crawford clan , who had the castle built around 1470. Around 1540 it fell through marriage to the MacLea clan , who had an annex added in the southwest. In 1586 they arranged for a further extension along the southeast wall. When James Livingstone was made Baron Livingstone of Almond in 1633, the name of the castle changed to Almond from Haining . After the Jacobite Revolt of 1715, the MacLea (Livingstone) family lost the castle to the crown. It was abandoned in the 1750s. In 1783 the ruins were sold to William Forbes by the York Buildings Company .
description
The ruin has a vaulted cellar. The knight's hall was on the first floor; There is also a kitchen in this wing. There is a courtyard with a wall and moat that encloses the remains of the 16th century buildings. The castle had four full floors and an attic. The entrance on the long south-east facade leads to the ground floor.
Historic Scotland has listed Almond Castle as a Category B Historic Building.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Martin Coventry: The Castles of Scotland . Goblinshead, 1997. ISBN 1-899874-10-0 . P. 52.
- ↑ a b c d Almond Castle . In: Undiscovered Scotland . Retrieved January 25, 2017.
- ↑ Almond Castle . In: Canmore . Retrieved January 25, 2017.
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
Coordinates: 55 ° 58 ′ 37.9 " N , 3 ° 40 ′ 24.6" W.