Addition to west of Mountquhanie Castle, Montquhanie Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 October 1973.
Addition to west of Mountquhanie Castle, Montquhanie Estate
- WRENN ID
- veiled-niche-russet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1973
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a 16th-century tower house, forming an addition to the west of Mountquhanie Castle on the Montquhanie Estate, near Rathillet, Fife. The tower house is rectangular, measuring approximately 42 feet by 26 feet, constructed of whin rubble with ashlar dressings. Original corbelled angle turrets remain on three corners. The centre of the north wall is missing, and the south wall has been partly altered during later repairs.
A small lean-to addition and a later mid-Victorian addition with crowstepped gables, dated IC ML 1682, are attached to the east courtyard wall and link to a small two-storey west range, which was restored in 1964. A three-window conical-roofed tower is located on the southwest corner. The roof is slated, with a crowstepped south gable and a straight skew on the north gable. A stone built into the west wall is dated BAC 1680.
The tower house is a scheduled monument; permission was previously granted for its demolition, but this was not enacted.
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