Carriden House

Carriden House
South front of Carriden House
LocationBo'ness, Falkirk
Coordinates56°00′38″N 3°33′55″W / 56.01056°N 3.56528°W / 56.01056; -3.56528
Built1602
Built forJohn Hamilton of Letterick
Listed Building – Category A
Designated25 November 1980
Reference no.LB22339
Carriden House is located in Falkirk
Carriden House
Carriden House within Falkirk council area

Carriden House is a 14,041 square feet (1,304.5 m2) mansion in the parish of Bo'ness and Carriden, in the Falkirk council area, east central Scotland.[1] It is located on the Antonine Wall 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) east of Bo'ness, and 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north-east of Linlithgow, in the former county of West Lothian.[2] The earliest part of the house is an early 17th-century tower house, which was extended in the 17th and 19th centuries.[3] Carriden House is protected as a category A listed building.[4]

  1. ^ "Country House (19th Century), Hospital (First World War), Tower House (16th Century)". CANMORE. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  2. ^ "OS 25 inch 1892-1949". National Library of Scotland. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  3. ^ Salmon, Thomas James (1913). Borrowstounness and district, being historical sketches of Kinneil, Carriden, and Bo'ness, c. 1550-1850. Edinburgh: William Hodge and Co. pp. 163–199. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  4. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Carriden, Carriden House Including Boundary Walls (Category A Listed Building) (LB22339)". Retrieved 27 March 2019.

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