Liberton Tower
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| Creation time : | 15th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | plastered | |
| Place: | Edinburgh | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 54 '52 .5 " N , 3 ° 10' 38.5" W | |
| Height: | 120 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Liberton Tower is a tower house with a rectangular floor plan in the district Liberton the Scottish city of Edinburgh . The four-story building on the east side of the Braid Hills .
history
Liberton Tower, located in Over Liberton or Upper Liberton , originally belonged to the Dalmahoy family , whose coat of arms can be seen on a carved stone shield on the south wall. Records of ownership of the Tower House date back to 1453, but the previous history is unknown.
The property fell to a branch of the Forrester family of Costorphine and was then sold to William Little , Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1586 and 1591. Provost Little had Liberton House built nearby and so the castle was abandoned as a residence in 1610 and served as a warehouse for agricultural products.
Deposits of charcoal and stoneware suggest that Tower House was involved in the fighting for Edinburgh in 1650 when Oliver Cromwell took the city in the course of the 3rd English Civil War . Other evidence of these battles is the removal of the parapets , damage to the tower and the cannon balls found in the adjacent fields.
architecture
Liberton Tower is a fine example of a noble residence of its time, one of the few that was not altered in later centuries. The building is designed without decorations, has small, asymmetrically arranged windows and is notably plastered with yellow Harl ; it has been described as "grim and cumbersome". The tower has a rectangular floor plan and measures 10.56 meters in an east-west direction and 7.83 meters in a north-south direction.
The 15th century structure is well preserved and was restored in 1994. It is rented out to holiday guests.
Historic Scotland has listed Liberton Tower as a Category A Historic Building.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Campbell: A journey from Edinburgh through parts of North Britain. 1802, p. 292 , accessed November 9, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Entry on Liberton Tower in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ↑ a b Daniel MacCannell: How to Read Scottish Buildings . Birlinn, Edinburgh 2015, p. 15.
- ^ Plantagenet Fry: Castles: England + Scotland + Ireland + Wales . Ed .: David & Charles. 2005, ISBN 0-7153-2212-5 , pp. 154 ( google.com [accessed November 9, 2017]).
- ↑ Liberton Tower. libertontower.com, accessed November 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
swell
- Martin Coventry: The Castles of Scotland . Birlinn, Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 1-84158-449-5 .
