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Brigend Castle is a sixteenth-century fortified tower house located in Ayrshire, Scotland. The structure represents a typical example of Scottish baronial domestic architecture from the early modern period, built to serve both residential and defensive purposes for a local landowning family. The castle survives as a substantial stone-built tower, characteristic of the tower house tradition that dominated Scottish castle construction between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its construction reflects the period when such structures provided security and status for minor nobility and gentry across southwest Scotland during a time of relative political consolidation following the medieval period.
Brigend Castle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5268. View the official record →
Brigend Castle is a sixteenth-century fortified tower house located in Ayrshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5268.
Brigend Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM5268.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Alloway Kirk (0.4 km), Alloway,motte (0.6 km), Wallace's Stone,cross-incised stone (1.1 km).
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