Plean Castle
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 Plean Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Plean Tower, Cock-a-bendy Castle, Mengie Castle, Menzies Castle, Plane Castle | |
| Creation time : | 1450s | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Masonry, plastered | |
| Place: | Plean | |
| Geographical location | 56 ° 3 '41.3 " N , 3 ° 50' 54.5" W | |
| Height: | 28 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Plean Castle , also Plean Tower , Cock-a-bendy Castle , Mengie Castle , Menzies Castle or Plane Castle , is a tower house with an attached country house in the Scottish administrative unit of Stirling . The Tower House dates from the 15th century, the country house from the 16th century.
history
King Robert the Bruce granted the Baronate Plean (or Plane ) to John d'Erth shortly after 1314 . The castle is believed to have been built by Lord Somerville , who acquired the Plean lands by marriage in 1449.
The country house was built around 1528. In 1643, James Somervell, 8th Lord of Plane , sold the baronate and lands to pay off his debts. The castle and manor fell to the Nicholsons and then to the Elphinstones , but both buildings fell into disrepair. In the course of the Jacobite uprising in 1745, troops were billeted on the property.
Sir David Menzies had the buildings restored in 1908, but they were no longer in use by the 1930s. In 1991–1997, Nancy and John Patrick Wright and their sons undertook another renovation to create a home for themselves and a vacation home.
description
Plean Castle originally had three full floors and an attic, as well as a protruding parapet. The great hall is in the Tower House; it has painted beams and a large, open fireplace. There is a sculpture garden and a large pond on the property.
Historic Scotland has listed Plean Castle as a Category B Historic Building.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cock-a-bendy Castle . Retrieved December 13, 2017.
- ^ A b c Maurice Lindsay: The Castles of Scotland . Constable, 1986. ISBN 0-09-473430-5 . P. 399.
- ^ Plean Tower . In: Canmore . Retrieved December 13, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Plane Castle . In: Gazetteer for Scotland . Retrieved December 13, 2017.
- ^ Plane Castle - History . Celtic Castles. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
- ^ Plean Castle . In: British Listed Buildings . Retrieved December 13, 2017.
