Including Retaining Wall And Flagstones, Battery And Mast House, Culzean Castle Estate is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 November 2011. Castle.
Including Retaining Wall And Flagstones, Battery And Mast House, Culzean Castle Estate
- WRENN ID
- tired-cloister-dock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 November 2011
- Type
- Castle
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Robertson Buchanan (engineer for Battery), 1815. Alexander Pollock (designer of Mast House), 1908. Double C-plan gun battery with ramparts breached by 11 gun ports. Octagonal-plan shelter, with pyramidal roof and veranda, on E side of battery.
BATTERY: grassed earthenwork ramparts, with embrasures, to NE. Random rubble retaining wall to SW. Vertically boarded timber shelter. Flagstone settings for cannon and shelter. 9 Cast iron cannon. Clifftop setting, oriented towards Firth of Clyde to the N.
MAST HOUSE: veranda carried on octagonal columns, with foliated iron brackets. Timber seats against outside walls. Vertically boarded timber door to SW. Slated roof, with timber skirting. 12-pane timber framed fixed casement window to SE. INTERIOR (seen 2010): single octagonal chamber with vertically boarded timber lined walls and ceiling. Timber floor. Timber window shutter. Base of truncated mast to centre.
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