Comlongon Castle is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Castle, mansion house. 1 related planning application.

Comlongon Castle

WRENN ID
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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
Type
Castle, mansion house
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

15th century large, rectangular-plan tower house at west end

of 1900-2 mansion house, latter by James Barbour and J.M.

Bowie of Dumfries, architects. TOWER HOUSE: 5 storeys;

rubble-built, ashlar dressings; round-headed door with yett

at east end of north wall; small mostly square-headed

openings, larger openings have iron grilles; splayed base

course; corbelled and crenellated parapet encloses roof and

links crow-stepped cap house over 3 angles.

Interior: many passages, chambers, presses etc. within wall

thicknesses; carved stone chimney-piece on 1st floor.

Outbuildings to West linked by crenellated wall. 20TH CENTURY

HOUSE: mostly 3 storey echoes tower house features;

asymmetrical extensive use of corbelling and crow-stepped

gables. Rubble-built, contrasting pink ashlar dressings.

Round-headed doorway on north east corner, north-facing

mullioned and transomed windows alongside loggia to south on

blocked columns.

Coped stacks; slate roofs.

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