Lochhouse Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. 1 related planning application.
Lochhouse Tower
- WRENN ID
- sunken-pediment-curlew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
A 16th-century tower house, Lochhouse Tower, was restored and re-roofed around 1973. The tower is rectangular in plan and stands three storeys high with an attic. It features an off-set plinth and an upper floor set back from the lower levels. The exterior is built of rubble, with rounded corners. There are wide-mouthed gun ports in the walls, a moulded doorway at the north end of the east wall and vertically-arranged windows. Corbels remain from a demolished parapet, and the slated roof incorporates rebuilt skews and end stacks. A blocked doorway exists in the south wall.
The ground floor is vaulted, with a chamber built within the wall thickness alongside the doorway. A wheel stair is located in the northeast angle. The building is documented in the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHM) inventory of 1920, reference number 388.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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