Uttershill Castle Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland, UK

Scheduled Monument Description

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The monument consists of the shell of a late sixteenth century

mansion, built of freestone rubble with dressed facework.

It is oblong on plan measuring externally 20m NE to SW by 7.3m NW to

SE. The building was originally three storeys, two of which remain. A large section of the SW wall has fallen including the main entrance.

The ground floor was arranged into two, a vaulted cellar in the SW

and a timber ceiled kitchen in the NE. The partition wall is now gone and only the springing of the cellar vault remains. The first floor

was also divided into two apartments, the hall being situated over

the cellar, and lit by two north windows, one in the west wall and at least two in the south wall. The adjacent chamber had windows in each external wall and a doorway that led to the upper floor of an outbuilding, now absent, which once stood against the eastern part of the south wall.

The area to be scheduled is rectangular, measuring 50m NE-SW by 40m NW-SE to include the castle and below ground structures associated

with it, as shown in red on the attached map. The existing boundary fences are specifically excluded from the scheduled area.