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corn_flake88

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Hi. This is my first post, so I apologise if it's not that great!
I'd been meaning to visit this site for a long time, and one day was bored,
so I decided to pay it a visit. After a 30 minute walk through some snowy
fields, I'd arrived at this once beautiful family home.

Some history from Wikipedia: "The Priory was built for the Lockhart family of Castlehill and
their family crest was carved above the main entrance and etched in every balustrade of
the main staircase inside. The crest represents a casket, heart and lock and derives from
the tradition that the ancestors of this family carried Robert the Bruce's heart back
from the holy land. The site was also the birthplace of John Gibson Lockhart,
Sir Walter Scott's biographer and later son in law.

The house is two and three storeys high with turrets at each corner,
a three-storey bow in the west elevation and a massive square porch. Characteristically,
the house was very ornately decorated with a variety of architectural details; castellated
roof lines, scrolled pinnacles, narrow pointed windows and drip moulds, and various cornices,
besides carved motifs and decorated chimneys. Some of the ornate pinnacles have been removed
in the interest of safety, and there had been at a recent extension to the lower ground floor
across a sunken passage across the house with a roof flush with ground level".​
On with the photos.

This is the view from the rough track towards the house:


Priory coming into view by monkey_see_monkey_do, on Flickr

Front Elevation, as you can see it's pretty vandalised:


DSCF0988 by monkey_see_monkey_do, on Flickr​

What used to be the Front Entrance:


Front Entrance by monkey_see_monkey_do, on Flickr

Back Window:


Back window by monkey_see_monkey_do, on Flickr

Inside, or what's left of it. The roof has completely gone:


DSCF0995 by monkey_see_monkey_do, on Flickr

Into the lower floor, this is only accessible through a hole in the floor:


Untitled by monkey_see_monkey_do, on Flickr

That's all I'll put on for now. I'd taken quite a few photos, so I'll put the rest on my flickr account.
Thanks for looking!​
 
Hi

Hi corn_flake,
1st post or not i realy like ;)
You can see through the condition of the building the very core structure of it.
Great post.

SK :)
 
as soon as i saw this i thought of foxy....... how strange :p

nice find for a first post corn_flake and i think the snow tops the shots off, its a shame this place cant get restored. now where's my lotto winnings :mrgreen:
 
Thanks guys!
I've been looking up some more info on this place. There have been quite a few planning applications forwarded by quite a few building contracters, but as it is a grade A listed building, these plans have always been dropped. Contracters were planning to convert this building into 6 apartments, but as this site is pretty rural and also a conservation site, planning will not go ahead and the site will remain in a ruinous state.
I hope to go back here in the Spring :)
 

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