An older tower and later castellated wings form a courtyard house above the wooded estate.
Quick facts
- Date
- Early tower; additions 1649 and 1857–59; conversion in the 1980s
- Architect / designer
- Earlier builders unknown; nineteenth-century work by R W Billings
- Type
- Country house and associated buildings
- OS grid reference
- NS 76014 54996
The building and its setting
Red and yellow sandstone distinguish parts of a complex composition of towers, stepped gables, projecting turrets and battlements. Terraced gardens descend beside the house. The ensemble was substantially reshaped in the nineteenth century rather than surviving unchanged from the Middle Ages.
Its story
HES records seventeenth-century enlargement and extensive work by R W Billings in 1857–59. Restoration and conversion into apartments followed in the late twentieth century. The council’s landscape assessment also records the residential conversion and the survival of the estate’s older paths, avenues and woodland structure.
Why it is included
Connects the industrial town to an older estate and its later remodelling.
What to look for
- The older central tower amid later wings
- Contrasting sandstone and the relationship with terraces and woodland
Reading the surroundings
Use signed public estate paths, respect residential privacy and check local access notices.
What we know — and what remains uncertain
HES describes the tower as early sixteenth century in its description but fifteenth century in its historical statement. Its exact date is left unresolved here. Public estate access does not imply entry to the house, courtyard or private gardens.
Sources & further reading
- Historic Environment Scotland: LB38238 — Designation, location, architectural description and historical development; not a fresh condition survey.
- North Lanarkshire Council: Clyde Valley landscape assessment, 2018 — Section 6.11 corroborates apartment conversion and explains the surviving designed landscape.
- North Lanarkshire Council: Dalzell Estate — Public paths, estate features and relationship to Baron’s Haugh.
Location
OS grid reference NS 76014 54996 · Location confidence: HES catalogue grid converted to WGS84; approximate record location, not an entrance or boundary. · Select the marker to open its satellite view in Google Maps. On desktop, drag Pegman (the yellow figure) onto a blue road. On mobile, turn on the Street View layer and tap a blue road. Other photo markers may be user-contributed.
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