Bardowie Castle

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Bardowie Castle

Bardowie Castle is a tower house near the Scottish town of Milngavie in East Dunbartonshire . It is east of the city on the north bank of the small lake Bardowie Loch . In 1973 the building was included in the Scottish Monuments List in the highest category A.

description

Predecessor buildings of the Galbraith clan already existed on the land . In the 15th century, Duncan, Earl of Lennox, gave the land to the Hamilton clan . A tower that was probably built only a few years earlier was first mentioned in 1532. Today's Bardowie Castle, which the Hamiltons of Bardowie completed around 1566, could be an extension of this tower. It is made of quarry stone and rises from a base area of ​​9.8 m long and 8.2 m wide. The wall thickness varies between 1.95 m and 2.5 m. The Tower House was expanded in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Over the centuries Bardowie Castle came into the possession of the Buchanan clan , who used it until the 20th century. Motivational speaker Jack Black acquired the property and restored it at an estimated total cost of £ 1 million . After an application to use Bardowie Castle as the headquarters of his wife's software company was denied, Black put the building up for sale for £ 1.2 million. In 2004 a buyer was finally found who bought it for about a million pounds.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ Information on Bardowie Castle
  3. ^ R. Fawcett, J. Gifford, FA Walker: Stirling and Central Scotland , 1st Edition, Yale University Press, 2002, pp. 207-209. ISBN 0-300-09594-5
  4. ↑ Entry on Bardowie Castle  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  5. ↑ a b Information on Bardowie Castle
  6. ^ The Scotsman: Bardowie Castle put on the market , March 1, 2002

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Coordinates: 55 ° 56 ′ 7.6 ″  N , 4 ° 16 ′ 39 ″  W.