Gelston Castle
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Gelston Castle is a mansion near the Scottish village of Gelston in the Council Area Dumfries and Galloway . In 1990 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A. There is also a category A monument ensemble with the stables, the coach house and the gate pillars.
description
Gelston Castle is located in the south of Dumfries and Galloway around 700 m southeast of Gelston. The design is attributed to the Scottish architect Richard Crichton and is based on the work of Robert Adam . The building was built around 1805 for William Douglas, 1st Baronet . Gelston Castle was abandoned in 1940 at the latest. The interior fell victim to a fire and the remaining ruins are visibly deteriorating. This led to the inclusion in the Scottish register of endangered listed structures in 1990. The former stables were restored in 2002.
The masonry of the three-story building is made of red sandstone . The south-east exposed front is eleven axes wide, which are arranged in the scheme 1–3–3–3–1. The entrance area is located in the middle of the three-axis-wide central risalit and it was accessible via a curved front staircase that has since been removed. Round towers protrude on the sides. Belt cornices divide the facade horizontally. It closes with a circumferential cantilever reinforcement. On the back of the building, which is eleven axes wide, a half-hexagonal section of the building protrudes in the middle. It is flanked by bulges protruding three axes across, semicircular. Analogous to the front, round towers frame the facade at the edges.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Entry on Gelston Castle in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 54 ° 54 ′ 17.1 " N , 3 ° 54 ′ 31.3" W.