Lainshaw Castle
| Lainshaw Castle | ||
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 Lainshaw Castle in the 18th century |
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| Creation time : | 15th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, built over | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Place: | Stewarton | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 40 '29.3 " N , 4 ° 31' 46.9" W | |
| Height: | 72 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Lainshaw Castle is an abandoned low castle about 1.6 km southwest of Stewarton in the Scottish administrative division of East Ayrshire . The 15th century castle ruins were incorporated into a country house called Lainshaw House around 1800 .
history
The castle belonged to Clan Stewart , but in 1570 it fell to Clan Montgomery . A Cunningham , one of the Tobacco Kings, bought the property in 1779 from Sir Walter Montgomerie-Cunninghame , impoverished by the American Revolutionary War .
Around 1800 the new country house was built into which the ruins of the castle were integrated.
description
1608 describes Pont Lainshaw Castle as "a stronge old Dunijon" (Eng .: a strong, old donjon ).
In the current building, most of the ground floor walls and the southeast facade are parts of the original castle up to a height of over 11 meters. Two small windows on the ground floor and a large window on the 3rd floor with a round bar are particularly noticeable.
The walls of the old castle, which have survived to this day, were broken through with various entrances that lead to newer parts of the building; some of them were later bricked up again. On the southeast facade you can see three different roof edges. An exact date of construction of these parts of the building cannot be made out, but one thinks that they must have been built at the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century.
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin Coventry: The Castles of Scotland . Goblinshead, Musselburgh 2001. ISBN 1-899874-26-7 . P. 233.
- ↑ a b c d Entry on Lainshaw Castle in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ^ Lainshaw House . In: British Listed Buildings . Retrieved October 26, 2017.