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Remains of castle, comprising a ruined keep with a vaulted ground floor, which replaced an earlier castle. The present structure was probably built circa 1600 or early in the 17th Century, replacing its predecessor which had been destroyed in 1590. Knock Castle strongly resembles a peel tower of the Borders. Built of rubble granite, squared for the dressings, with giant boulders anchoring the corner foundations. The foundations of the enclosing wall of the courtyard can still be traced. The cellar was lit by a single narrow loop on each side. It is entered at the south end of the west face by a low, straight-lintelled door, the only means of access to the interior of the tower. There are two rebates for an outer iron yett and a wooden door. Within this, on the right, a newel stair circles up in the southwest angle to the summit of the building, only the first few steps of which remain. The main hall was on the first floor with a large window in each face beneath which are three shot-holes. Two round turrets are corbelled out off the garret at the southeast and northeast corners. In addition a square chamber of a larger size was provided in a cape-house over the stair-head. A watching brief carried out by Kirkdale Archaeology in November 2011 during excavation of three small holes for permanent survey markers recorded no archaeological features or artefacts.
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