Auchinleck Old House (6)
This is not a scale drawing nor is it a drawing of any great accuracy, but it does give (I hope) a useful interpretation of what remains of the castle in the context of what little we know about it.
The L-plan tower-house, as drawn 230 years ago, is shown in yellow. The walls shown in grey, all parts of the main block, are all that remain visible above ground. Where the walls are shown in black, they extend above ground floor level, to form the only surviving portion of the first floor. Nothing remains of the wing to the south, shown in dotted lines - not above ground at any rate. The ground level is clearly as much as half a storey higher than it used to be, so the foundations may still exist below the current ground level.
The western ground floor cellar was vaulted and survives mostly intact. The next room to the east was either very small (in which case there would have been a 3rd cellar at the east end) or, the surviving section of vaulting was a kitchen fireplace.
The range to the west (shown in green with blue walls), extending off the west gable of the main block, is a subsidiary range or rooms built after the tower-house.
The green splat is the Lara Croft, Tomb Raider tree!
Auchinleck Old House (6)
This is not a scale drawing nor is it a drawing of any great accuracy, but it does give (I hope) a useful interpretation of what remains of the castle in the context of what little we know about it.
The L-plan tower-house, as drawn 230 years ago, is shown in yellow. The walls shown in grey, all parts of the main block, are all that remain visible above ground. Where the walls are shown in black, they extend above ground floor level, to form the only surviving portion of the first floor. Nothing remains of the wing to the south, shown in dotted lines - not above ground at any rate. The ground level is clearly as much as half a storey higher than it used to be, so the foundations may still exist below the current ground level.
The western ground floor cellar was vaulted and survives mostly intact. The next room to the east was either very small (in which case there would have been a 3rd cellar at the east end) or, the surviving section of vaulting was a kitchen fireplace.
The range to the west (shown in green with blue walls), extending off the west gable of the main block, is a subsidiary range or rooms built after the tower-house.
The green splat is the Lara Croft, Tomb Raider tree!