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Carriden House
| Carriden House | |
|---|---|
 South front of Carriden House | |
| Location | Bo'ness, Falkirk |
| Coordinates | 56°00′38″N 3°33′55″W / 56.01056°N 3.56528°W |
| Built | 1602 |
| Built for | John Hamilton of Letterick |
Listed Building – Category A | |
| Designated | 25 November 1980 |
| Reference no. | LB22339 |
  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]
- ^ "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.
- ^ "OS 25 inch 1892-1949". National Library of Scotland. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Carriden, Carriden House Including Boundary Walls (Category A Listed Building) (LB22339)". Retrieved 27 March 2019.
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