Wormiston House Crail, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Wormiston House has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 330243 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 50
- Canmore ID
- 35329
- Category
- B
- Name
- Wormiston House
- Parish
- Crail
- County
- Fife
- Easting
- 361064
- Northing
- 709585
- Date Listed
- 22 October 1984
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
17th century original block, rectangular lying N-S, 3-storey crowstepped with twin circular attic windows in gables; NE wing perhaps of same date or only slightly later; low wing at S gable also of late 17th/early 18th century, 2-storey with circular attic window in gable, also crowstepped. Extended 1802, NE wing doubled in length and in width on S; remodelled and extended 1858, crowstepped porch, SE gable and corbelled turret in re-entrant angle added to 1802 work, asymmetrical W wing with 3-storey crenellated tower; old domerheads incorporated, one dated 1629; harled with margins, slated.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Belonged originally to the Spens family: sold to Balfours 1612, and to Lindsays 1621; now repurchased by Spens family; empty in 1972.
