Smeaton House
| Smeaton House | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Smeaton Castle | |
| Creation time : | 15th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish clergy | |
| Place: | Inveresk | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 54 '57.2 " N , 3 ° 2' 42.4" W | |
| Height: | 34 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Smeaton House , also Smeaton Castle , now part of Dalkeith Home Farm , is the ruin of a low castle about 3 km north of Dalkeith and 1.6 km south of Inveresk in the Scottish administrative unit East Lothian . The farm castle dates from the 15th century.
history
In 1450 the lands on which Smeaton Castle stands belonged to Dunfermline Abbey . They later fell to the Richardson family . The castle buildings are now part of a farm.
architecture
Round towers stood in the courtyard, but only two of them are preserved today. There is also a curtain between them. These are the two western towers. One of the towers has only survived at a reduced height, the other has four floors and an attached stair tower with a square floor plan.
There is also a building line, albeit a major change. Your ground floor has a vaulted ceiling .
There are also traces of a moat .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Smeaton House . In: ScotlandsPlaces . Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. 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 January 6, 2010.
- ^ A b c d Martin Coventry: The Castles of Scotland . Goblinshead, Musselburgh 2001. ISBN 1-899874-26-7 . P. 379.
