Knock Old Castle

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 14/04/1971 Local Authority North Ayrshire Planning Authority North Ayrshire Parish Largs NGR NS 19337 63110 Coordinates 219337, 663110 — 2 lintels of 1603 and 1604 may date building. Repaired and altered 1853 (dated). Rectangular-plan 3-storey and attic tower (now reduced in size) (ragged wall fragments to east); screen wall, formerly part of a courtyard, extends south from tall, conical-roofed, circular angle turret. All rubble-built with ashlar dressings. Tower house has round-headed doorway on south wall, and single roll-moulded window at each level, dovecot in dormer head. Moulded eaves cornice; crowstepped gables and coped end stacks. Slate roofs. Single light at each level above ground to west gable and west elevation of angle turret; latter entered by segmental-arched east-facing door; door above opens onto parapet walkway of screen wall; doorway, 3 circular hand-gun ports and 2 slits to west (outer) face of latter; corbelled and crenellated parapets above linked to conical-roofed corbelled round turret at south. — J T Rochead designed the nearby new Knock Castle circa 1852, and so may also have been responsible for the alterations to this building.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.