Scotland · Restored
Couston Castle
Couston Castle is an L-plan Scottish tower house originally built in the late 16th or early 17th century, standing at the edge of Otterston Loch near Dalgety Bay in Fife. The building received later additions and was partly demolished in the 1830s, then restored and converted to a private house in the late 20th century. The castle sits close to the water and is surrounded by trees and parkland.
Its prime
1820
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1820
What Couston Castle looked like in its prime.
Compact L-plan tower house of harled pale stone with stepped crow-gables and multiple tall chimneys, rising three to four storeys from the loch shore. A projecting wing balances the main block to form the L-plan. Narrow vertical windows puncture the facades; steep pitched roofs are slate or dark tiles. At the prime view the south range and an 18th‑century north wing are present, the building set low among dense riverside trees and shrubbery beside Otterston Loch.
Its story
The story of Couston Castle.
Couston stands at the edge of Otterston Loch, north-east of Dalgety Bay in Fife, on lands granted in 1199 to Robert de London, an illegitimate son of King William the Lion, and granted in turn to Roger Frebern. The castle itself, an L-plan tower house of the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, rose on the site of an earlier building.
It was first the property of the Logans of Restalrig, passing later to the Earls of Moray; King James V confirmed a charter to James Logan of Couston, whose family were resident in the period when the castle was remodelled to broadly the form it has now. Partly demolished in the 1830s and derelict for many years, Couston was restored in 1985 by the architect Ian Begg, who converted it into a family home.
Step inside
5 places to explore in 1820.
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Clans who held Couston Castle.
The families that held Couston Castle for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Logan
Property of the Logans of Restalrig; James Logan of Couston held a charter confirmed by James V.
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