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Rowallan Castle today

Scotland · Restored

Rowallan Castle

Rowallan Castle is a historic Scottish tower house on a low knoll beside the Carmel Water, with origins in the medieval period and major work of the 16th century. The surviving core is a compact, multi-storey stone castle with later domestic additions and enclosing walls, long associated with the Mure family and later owners. It remains standing and has been conserved and repurposed in recent decades under private ownership.

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Its prime

1562

Today

Restored

As it stood in 1562

The shape it held in its prime.

A compact rectangular stone tower-house built of warm brown and grey rubble with ashlar dressings, dominated by a symmetrical southern front featuring two round drum towers with conical slate roofs flanking a central arched entrance reached by a broad external stone stair. White-framed windows puncture the masonry in regular courses; carved heraldic panels and an inscribed stone sit above the doorway. A low barmkin wall and fragments of curtain wall lie to the side, the whole set on a small grassy knoll in parkland.

Step inside

8 places to explore in 1562.

The record describes 8 distinct spots at Rowallan Castle — including 3 interiors: the 'auld kirk' — old chapel chamber, lord loudoun's sleeping apartment, the 'woman's house' — women's workroom. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Main approach — southern front and external stairPorch and carved heraldry over the entranceTwin drum towers and south elevationCourtyard, barmkin wall and adjacent ruinsThe 'Auld Kirk' — old chapel chamberLord Loudoun's sleeping apartmentThe 'Woman's House' — women's workroomBase of the principal stair — loupin-on-stane and tread crack

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