Bardowie Castle

Bardowie Castle is a tower house near the Scottish town of Milngavie in East Dunbartonshire. It is located east of the town on the northern shore of the small lake Bardowie hole. In 1973, the building was added to the Scottish lists of monuments in the highest category A.

Description

On the lands already existed earlier buildings of the Clan Galbraith. In the 15th century, Duncan, Earl of Lennox spoke the Clan Hamilton to the lands. A probably only a few years earlier erbauter tower was first mentioned there in 1532. In the present Bardowie Castle, the Hamiltons of Bardowie ready to put 1566, it could be an extension to this tower. It consists of rubble stone and rises from a base of 9.8 m length and 8.2 m width. The wall thickness varies between 1.95 m and 2.5 m. Both the 17th and the 18th and 19th century, the Tower House was expanded. Over the centuries Bardowie Castle came into the possession of the Clan Buchanan, from which it was used until the 20th century. The motivational speaker Jack Black purchased the property and restored it at an estimated price of a total of one million pounds. After an application was rejected on the use of Bardowie Castle as the seat of the software company of his wife, Black wrote the building for £ 1.2 million from the sale. 2004 Finally, a buyer was found, who acquired it for about a million pounds.