Catcune Castle
Catcune Castle is an Outbound castle north of the River Esk (Gore Water), about 1.6 km south of Gorebridge in the Scotland administrative unit Midlothian .
history
The property originally belonged to the Borthwick clan . It then fell to the Sinclair clan , who presumably had the castle built. The lands of Catcune are mentioned in documents in 1527 and 1652. In 1908, the castle is said to have been in ruins , in 1954 only the ledge on which it was once built was said to have been visible. In 1975 it is said that there was no longer a trace of the pasture where it once stood.
architecture
The castle was a residential tower with an L-shaped floor plan that stood on a ledge.
The main block, which stood in a north-south direction, had a footprint of 13.2 meters by 7.5 meters. A wing was added to the west and had a gable to the west. Its base was 6.6 meters by 6 meters. There were three vaulted storage rooms on the first floor.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Martin Coventry: The Castles of Scotland . Goblinshead, 1997. ISBN 1-899874-10-0 . P. 116.
- ↑ a b c d Catcune Castle . Retrieved May 3, 2017.
Coordinates: 55 ° 49 ′ 57 ″ N , 3 ° 2 ′ 16.1 ″ W.