Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old Photograph Sparrow Castle Scotland
Old photograph of Sparrow Castle at the South end of Cockburnspath in Scotland. The old manor house known locally as Sparrow Castle consists in reality of two old houses, one partially abutting on the end of the other and at right angles to it. The windows of the southernmost house are surrounded with a bead-and-hollow moulding, and three large corbels project on the W face of the wall-head. The N house is entered at first floor level by an outside stair. It has a vaulted basement. This building replaced Cockburnspath Castle. The Arnots were in possession in around 1625, when it passed to the Nicolsons, and they built a burial aisle at the nearby parish church. The lands with the tower, fortalice, etc are mentioned in a ratification of 1695 in favour of Sir John Hall of Dunglass
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