Cats Castle

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 23/02/1996 Supplementary Information Updated 17/09/2019 Local Authority West Dunbartonshire Planning Authority West Dunbartonshire Parish Cardross NGR NS 37240 75891 Coordinates 237240, 675891 — 1888. 2-storey and attic, asymmetrical Scots Baronial house with round towers, on ground falling to S. Bull-faced grey sandstone, ashlar margins and dressings. Battered base; string course; hoodmoulds; mullion-and-transom principal windows with roll-moulded surrounds; eaves moulding; crowstepped gables. E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bays asymmetrically disposed with lower gabled garage block to outer right. Half-gabled and lean-to buttress block advanced against outer left gable. Entrance in penultimate left bay reached via curved steps; pierced, stepped balustrade, cast-iron grid infill, lower lean-to buttress bay on deep base to outer left; feline sculpture behind crowsteps. Depressed-arch door, moulded surround, 2-leaf boarded door, radiating fanlight, hoodmould. Small window at ground right, transomed and mullioned window above, crowstepped gable over; feline sculpture above eaves moulding. Broad gable to outer right, bipartite window at ground, single window above, semicircle ventilation opening in gablehead. Single storey, crowstep gabled garage block to outer right, modern garage door. S ELEVATION: 2-storey, 2-bay with 3-storey round tower bay to outer left. 3-stage round tower, deep battered base, ashlar vents; battlemented corbelled bartizan in re-entrant angle to right; shaped parapet, balustraded rising to shaped solid crenellated parapet; trefoil at centre, feline sculptures. String course between ground, 1st floor, heavily moulded cornice between 2nd floor and upper stage; windows symmetrically disposed at each stage, those at 1st floor smaller; bi

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.