Eastend House - Nov 21

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Eastend House

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Been covered many times this place but heres a few pics from our visit in 21 as part of a epic long weekend with my non forum mate.
The place is er a bit of a state to say the least I remember it was a horrendously windy day & much to our alarm a roof to one of the outbuildings actually fell in while we were in the main building!
You wont be surprised to know we didnt go upstairs...

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Eastend is a 16th century tower incorporated within a later mansion house. The earliest origins of Eastend are unclear, but there is thought to have been a castle on this site owned by the Carmichael family since the 13th century. Unfortunately the majority of the family’s papers from before 1677 were accidentally destroyed. The Carmichaels also owned the castle of Carmichael nearby. It is not known which of the two branches of the family is the oldest, some sources asserting that the Carmichaels of Carmichael are older than the Carmichaels of Eastend, while others insist the opposite.

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It may also have been the case originally that Eastend was used by the eldest son and heir of the head of the family at Carmichael. One version has it that Eastend became the home of a branch of the Carmichaels of Carmichael which separated from the main line around 1500. The oldest visible part of the building, a rectangular keep, dates from around this time, although it is said to incorporate earlier work. The keep was originally three storeys in height, plus a garret within a crenellated walkway with bartizans at each corner. It had a vaulted basement, with the main doorway being at first floor level.


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Thats ya lot, Thanks for looking
 
Yep, it's a crying shame. First visited it a long while back in 2008, the staircase and the WW2 Polish Army plaque were the highlights then, but it looks like the structure is barely hanging on now. The history of the Carmichael family and how Eastend Ho ended up like this is interesting to read.
 
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