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Couston Castle

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The north wing is thought to date from the eighteenth century. The castle was in reasonable condition until the 1830s, when the greater part of the south end was demolished to provide stones used in building farm buildings. The castle was purchased by a
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confirmed a charter to James Logan of Couston, whose family were resident at that period, during which the castle was remodelled to the form that it generally now has. For part of the second half of the seventeenth century it was occupied by
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businessman, Alastair Harper, in 1980, and he set about its restoration. After having been derelict for many years, the castle was restored by architect
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in 1985, who converted it into a family home. In 2002 further refurbishments and extensions were finished.
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Couston Castle was built on lands granted to Robert de London, an illegitimate son of
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dating from the late sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries, just north east of
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The castle was firstly the property of the Logans of
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Couston

Dalgety Bay
L-plan
tower house
Dalgety Bay
Fife
Scotland
King William the Lion
Restalrig
Earls of Moray
King James V
Robert Blair
Presbyterian
clergyman
King Charles I
Dunfermline
Ian Begg



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