Craigrownie Castle

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 14/05/1971 Local Authority Argyll And Bute Planning Authority Argyll And Bute Burgh Cove And Kilcreggan NGR NS 22234 81251 Coordinates 222234, 681251 — Alexander Thomson, c.1854 with later additions and alterations (see Notes). 2- to 6-storey, asymmetrical Baronial castle with 3-stage tower and large oriel windows, situated on high ground falling sharply to W. Whinstone and sandstone rubble with harl-pointing; ashlar margins and dressings. Base course; string course; eaves band; raised cills, stone mullions and transoms. S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: L-plan of 3 bays with tower and canted porch at re-entrant angle. Square, 3-stage tower with bipartite window at 2nd stage; narrow round-headed lights at upper level; moulded string courses dividing stages; crenellated parapet on corbelled course. Tudor-arched door to porch flanked by diagonal buttresses and blind niches, parapet raised as plaque at centre. Advanced shouldered jamb to left of porch with transomed and mullioned window at upper stage, 2 small lights at gablehead. Crenellated block advanced in front of jamb with canted red sandstone window. To right of porch: narrow bay with transomed and mullioned window with hoodmould at ground; gabled dormerhead above. Broad, parapetted gable to right having slender full-height canted window to centre. Segmental-arched pedestrian gate within wall to outer right. W ELEVATION: 3-bay block of gabled bays with tower to outer left, return of jamb to outer right. Tall gabled block slightly advanced to outer right, whinstone with red sandstone details. Canted, parapetted oriel at principal floor, door with flanking diagonal buttresses at ground, tripartite window at 2nd floor. Narrow, gabled bay recessed to left, battered base at ground, bipartite window at 1st flo

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.