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Latitude: 55.7229 / 55°43'22"N
Longitude: -4.8789 / 4°52'44"W
OS Eastings: 219285
OS Northings: 651471
OS Grid: NS192514
Mapcode National: GBR 30.DFWZ
Mapcode Global: WH2NF.0FZ4
Plus Code: 9C7QP4FC+4C
Entry Name: Hunterston Castle
Listing Name: Hunterston Castle
Listing Date: 14 April 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 347616
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14313
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200347616
Location: West Kilbride
County: North Ayrshire
Electoral Ward: Dalry and West Kilbride
Parish: West Kilbride
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Castle
A 15th century or early 16th century Keep with a 17th
century house attached to it. Originally a morass stretched
round the castle with a protecting moat and rampart; Keep is
of small dimensions and contained four stories of which the
undermost is vaulted; main entrance on 1st floor from which
a wheel-stair in the thickness of the wall led to the top
where the parapet walk is protected by a battlement projected
on small corbels round three sides only. The 17th century
house addition has a staircase turret projecting in the middle
of the south side. The building is in good preservation
and was the home of the Hunter family until the Georgian
mansion was built. There were ranges of offices attached to
the castle which no longer exist, the site being now occupied
by a modern homestead, but the small courtyard on the south
side seems, however, to be old. What remains is a picturesque
range, with courtyards to north and south.
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