Gilnockie Tower is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Tower house. 3 related planning applications.

Gilnockie Tower

WRENN ID: ghost-chalk-oak
Grade: A
Local Planning Authority: Dumfries and Galloway
Country: Scotland
Date first listed: 3 August 1971
Type: Tower house
Source: Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

16th century tower house shell sympathetically restored for

domestic use 1979-80, W G Dawson architect. Roughly coursed

rubble, ashlar dressings, rectangular or slit openings, mostly roll-moulded, some with relieving arches. Door at S end of W

wall; central gun port to elevations at ground level;

small-paned windows; splayed base course; continuous corbel

table with cable moulding curved over angles, rope-moulding

raised at intervals (some upper stonework removed).

Crow-stepped gables, corbelled apex beacon platform at S,

corniced end stack at N. Slate roof.

INTERIOR: lower level vaulted (prehistoric stone in floor at

door to latter); circular stair within SW angle.

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