Tower of Kinneil House, Bo'ness

Heritage listing

Category A Group Category Details 100000019 - See Notes Date Added 22/02/1971 Last Date Amended 03/08/2017 Local Authority Falkirk Planning Authority Falkirk Burgh Bo'Ness NGR NS 98197 80557 Coordinates 298197, 680557 — Description: Kinneil House is an L-plan building comprising a late 15th century tower house and a 16th century palace wing, both with 17th century additions and remodelling. It is built in sandstone, coursed tooled and random rubble and some harling remains. There are gunloops in the west elevation of the tower. The east (principal) elevation of the tower consists of a 5-storey, 3-bay central section flanked by advanced lower 4-storey towers with pyramidal roofs. The central section has a doorpiece (now part-obscured by modern metal protective door) with a lugged architrave and bracketed segmental pediment and balustrade parapet. The palace range is 3 storeys and 3 bays with crowstepped gables. Only the east end of this range is roofed. The openings are predominantly boarded up and the roofed sections have replacement grey slates. The rainwater goods are cast iron and one hopper to the west elevation is dated '1980 . The interior was seen in 2004. The tower lacks any internal floors or partition walls. Some lath and plaster, plaster cornices, stone chimneypieces and staircases survive. The corner tower have staircases with the north tower linking to the palace range. The ground floor of the palace block is divided into barrel-vaulted cellars, one with a well, while the first floor has two rooms with important 16th century painted decoration. The Parable Room has a fine coffered oak ceiling and black line drawings with touches of colour set into architectural frames between the dado and frieze. The painted decoration predominantly depicts the biblical sto

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.