Scotland · Partial ruin
Johnstone Castle
Johnstone Castle is a former mansion in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, long owned by the Houstons and remodelled in a castellated style in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Much of the house was demolished in 1950; the surviving central square tower and an attached bartizaned section remain and the tower is now a private residence and a category B listed building. The composer Frédéric Chopin visited the estate in 1848.
Its prime
1848
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1848
The shape it held in its prime.
Square, three-storey masonry tower of warm grey sandstone with a steep slate roof and a crenellated parapet; the left front retains a smaller crow-stepped, bartizaned projection containing a turret. Narrow pointed-arch and rectangular windows puncture the plain elevation, with a pronounced rope-style string course running around the tower; ground-floor openings indicate barrel-vaulted chambers. The tower sits directly beside a town street behind a low stone boundary and iron railings, the larger house once extending to either side.
Step inside
5 places to explore in 1848.
The record describes 5 distinct spots at Johnstone Castle — including 1 interior: barrel-vaulted ground-floor chamber. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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