Alternative Names The Vaults; The Vouts; Barney Vaults; Abbey Grange
Site type TOWER HOUSE
Canmore ID 56299
Site Number NT57NW 27
NGR NT 52861 76551
Council EAST LOTHIAN
Parish HADDINGTON
Former Region LOTHIAN
Former District EAST LOTHIAN
Former County EAST LOTHIAN

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Archaeological Notes

NT57NW 27 52861 76551.

(NT 5287 7655) The Vaults (NAT)
formerly Barnes Castle (NR)
(remains of)
OS 6" map (1968)

Barnes Castle: The ruins of a 16th c residence of unusual type - an example of axial planning. It is a rectangle 162'6" by 126'8" with the major axis NE-SW. Square towers project externally from the angles and between these are spaced intermediate towers - two on the NW, one on the SE, and one centrally on the SW. At the highest the walls are 14' but only the vaulted ground floor of the dwelling portion remains.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 1913

The remains of Barnes Castle, generally as described above, are in relatively poor condition and used as a farm store. The walls are of rubble masonry and average 0.8m in width.
Visited by OS (BS) 18 July 1975.

Coventry, M (2001) The castles of Scotland Musselburgh
Page(s): 79 Held at RCAHMS F.5.2.COV

Hardie, F W (1933) 'Barnes Castle', Trans E Lothian Antiq Fld Natur Soc, vol.2
Page(s): 56-61

MacGibbon and Ross, D and T (1887-92) The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries, 5v Edinburgh
Page(s): Vol.2, 333-6 Held at RCAHMS F.5.21.MAC