Angus HER - NO48SW0006 - INVERMARK CASTLE

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Primary ReferenceNO48SW0006
NameINVERMARK CASTLE
NRHE Card No.NO48SW6
NRHE Numlink 33952
HES SM No. 2462
HES LB No. 11349
Site Form Standing Structure
Site Condition Incomplete
Details Remains of a tower house built in the 16th century, possibly 1526. It was built for the Lindsay family, who also owned Edzell Castle (NO56NE0008). A castle is known to have existed at Invermark in the 14th century, but this earlier structure is thought to have been located on a different site. There were 17th century additions and alterations, and the tower house was repaired in 1729. It was inhabited until at least the middle of the 18th century, and is said to have been gutted in 1803 at which time the surrounding offices were demolished and the stone re-used in the construction of Lochlee Parish Church (NO48SW0013) and the House of Mark (NO48SW0011). It is depicted on the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps as being in ruins. It is a four-storey and attic, rectangular-plan, roofless tower house with walls almost complete to the wallhead. It is constructed from random granite and schist boulders and rubble, with red sandstone margins. There are rounded corners, corbelled to square at the third floor. There is a 17th century bartizan corbelled out at the third floor on the south-east corner, a round-arched entrance with an iron yett at the first floor, regularly-spaced horizontal gun loops at the ground level to all elevations and gable and wall-head stacks. There is very irregular fenestration, with chamfered window margins to older part and rounded margins to the later windows. There is the intermittent remains of an eaves cornice. Inside, the ground floor is barrel-vaulted and accessed by turnpike stair to the left of the principal entrance. There may have originally been a drawbridge over a surrounding moat, however the sources for this are not conclusive.
Last Update22/11/2016
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Monument Type 1Monument Type 2Monument Type 3OrderProbability
MOATS SITE OFB50
DRAW-BRIDGES SITE OFC50
YETTSIRON D100
TOWERHOUSES REMAINS OFE100
BARTIZANSANGLECORBELLEDF100
DOORWAYS ROUND-HEADEDG100
CASTLES REMAINS OFA100
GUN-LOOPS  H100
STACKSWALLHEAD I100
STAIRCASESTURNPIKE J100
OFFICES SITE OFK100