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Cowden Castle

Castle (14th Century), Country House (17th Century)

Site Name Cowden Castle

Classification Castle (14th Century), Country House (17th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Castleton; Fragment Of Castleton House

Canmore ID 48218

Site Number NS99NE 1

NGR NS 98835 99663

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Clackmannan
  • Parish Muckhart (Clackmannan)
  • Former Region Central
  • Former District Clackmannan
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NS99NE 1.00 98835 99663 Cowden Castle

NS99NE 1.01 99075 99980 East Lodge

NN90SE 5 98087 00033 Stable Arch

(Name NS 9890 9964) Castleton (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6"map, (1948)

Castleton is an old house built by Archbishop Lamberton in 1320. It appears to have been a building of some considerable size. All that now remains, in apparently a small part of a turret, or corner of the building.

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.

Castleton occupies the site of a house which was erected about 1320. Scant traces of this ancient building consisting of an arched gateway, and the ruined foundations of a turret are still in existence. All that remains of Castleton is a small portion of the surrounding courtyard wall.

The Dollar Magazine 1905; Name Book 1898.

NS 9884 9964. The mansion of Castleton is now demolished. Immediately to the south of the site, a wall, containing an archway, runs to an octagonal turret which bears the date '1707' and the letters

W.P.M.H. Close to this are the ivy-covered remains of the tower referred to above. This is more probably the remnant of an angle tower of a courtyard wall, rather than that of a building, and the alignment of the wall containing the archway tends to support this. Part of this wall is, however, undoubtedly of a later period than the tower.

Visited by OS (J D) 16 June 1953.

No change.

Visited by OS (R D) 12 July 1967.

Architecture Notes

NS99NE 1.00 98835 99663 Cowden Castle

NS99NE 1.01 99075 99980 East Lodge

NN90SE 5 98087 00033 Stable Arch

NMRS REFERENCE:

ARCHITECT: Harry Ramsey Taylor - picture gallery.

Cowden Castle is recorded as having been demolished in Demolitions catalogue held in NMRS library.

Activities

Field Visit (July 1977)

Castleton NS 988 996 NS99NE 1

Fragmentary remains of an 18th century house built on the site of a castle of 1320; only surviving structure is an ornamental tower bearing a datestone of 1707 and an attached length of courtyard walling. To NE of this is a rectangular mound with a flat top; possibly the castle mound. The present Cowden House, built about 1962, is on the site of the rose garden of the 18th-century house.

RCAHMS 1978, visited July 1977

(NSA, x, Perth, 305-6)

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