Knock Castle is a private residence on the outskirts of Largs, on the west coast of Scotland. It was built by the boat-building Steele family in 1851, with a further wing added in the early twentieth century. The restored seventeenth century Knock Old Castle is within the grounds.
Knock Castleedit
Knock Castle
The new castle was designed by J. T. Rochead and built in 1851-1852 in a castellated Tudor revival style. It was built for Robert Steele, a Greenock merchant, and his initials and crest are carved on the parapets. Around 1870 it was sold to George Elder FRSE (1816-1897), a Scottish businessman with strong links to Adelaide in Australia, who certainly owned the castle in the later 19th century, and died here in 1897.[1] The house was then sold to Robert Hunter Craig who died there in 1913.[2]
Knock Old Castle was mentioned by the cartographer Timothy Pont in about 1608.[4] The remains of this small mansion or castle stand on the edge of a stream with an extensive view to the west over Arran and Bute. It consisted of a rectangular block, with a round tower at the south-west angle, and the remains of another at the north-east angle. The latter is about 3 metres (9.8 ft) high. A courtyard wall has a door in it, and it is possible that buildings abutted this.[5]
A modern parapet with angle turret surmounts this wall, which bears a stone inscribed "Repaired in 1853." This restoration is recorded as being by John Thomas Rochead. This wall also contains stones (not in situ) dated '1603' and '1604', the initials 'I B' being on the latter. The whole building has been restored and, in parts, modernised. The walls are only 0.6 metres (2.0 ft) thick. No other traces of courtyard wall are visible.[5]Nigel Tranter gives a similar description in his The Fortified House in Scotland, and adds that Knock Castle was probably built in the late 16th or early 17th century.[6] The old castle is a category B listed building.[7]
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^(PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
^Historic Environment Scotland. "Knock Castle and Garden Pavilion Block and Gatepiers to east (Category A Listed Building) (LB7306)". Retrieved 22 March 2019.
^Dobie, J. S. (ed.) (1876) Cuninghame, topographized by Timothy Pont, A M, 1604-1608: with continuations and illustrative notices by the late James Dobie of Crummock, FSA Scot., p.219
^ abHistoric Environment Scotland. "Knock Old Castle, NMRS Number: NS16SE 3 (40716)". Canmore. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
^Tranter, N (1962-70) The fortified house in Scotland, Vol.3, pp.44-5
^Historic Environment Scotland. "Knock Old Castle (Category B Listed Building) (LB7307)". Retrieved 22 March 2019.
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