Cambusnethan House (Cambusnethan Priory)

Wishaw

North Lanarkshire

Scotland

Circa Date: 1819

Status: Derelict

House Open to Public: No

Country House: Yes

Earlier Houses: The 19th century house was built as a mock priory on the site of an earlier 17th century house, which was, itself, a replacement of a Norman tower house.

Built / Designed For: Lockhart family
Architect: James Gillespie Graham

Date of Birth: 1777
Date of Death: 1855
Nationality: British
Notes: Graham was a Gothic Revival architect with a large practice in Scotland. He specialized in Gothic churches and castellated country houses and was the leading practitioner of the Picturesque castle style house in the second and third decades of the 19th century.

Date: 1819
Designed: Tudor Revival House for Lockhart family

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John Bernard (J.B.) Burke, published under the title of A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, among other titles: 2.S. Vol. I, p. 47, 1854.
House Listed: Category A

Park Listed: Destroyed
Past Seat / Home of: John Gibson Lockhart, 19th century.

Current Ownership Type: Unknown

Primary Current Ownership Use: Unoccupied
House Open to Public: No
Historic Houses Member: No

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