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Poplar Avenue, JOHNSTONE, PA5 0EF

The Category B Listed castle http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB35602 on Tower Place at Tower Road can be seen to the right of centre.

Looking along the south elevation towards Hawthorn Avenue. Some alterations seem to have been abandoned!

Viewed from the south.

The Category B Listed castle http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/designation/LB35602 is now surrounded by council houses. See also Image

A castle in the middle of a housing scheme on the outskirts of Johnstone. Category B Listed http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB35602 , described as follows on Canmore https://canmore.org.uk/site/43213/johnstone-castle ... ""Johnstoun, an old possession of the Nisbets, came from them to the Wallaces, continued six generations a house of good account, now decayed". W Macfarlane 1907 Johnstone Castle, now situated in a modern housing scheme, was originally named "Easter Cochran" and owned by the family of that ilk, its name changed in 1733 when it was acquired by the Houstons of Johnstone. they added to and altered the former mainly 16th century fortalice in the years that followed. Now that the estate has been taken over by the burgh, most of the extended mansion has been pulled down and only the original part is left, though much scarred by 19th century 'improvements'. It is now used as a store. The castle as it now stands is L-shaped and consists of a comparatively little-altered main block of three storyes and a garret, lying E-W, with a wing, now built in the form of a massive Gothic tower, projecting N and rising a storey higher. Apart from two tiny windows at basement level, and others built up, the wing has been very much altered. The hall, on the first floor of the main block, has also been much altered, but still retains a garderobe and a very deep window embrasure, giving the impression of a nucleus older than the 16th century. N Tranter 1970."

North west elevation with Tower Place in the background. http://www.johnstonecastle.org/documents/Johnstone%20Castle%20Brochure.pdf

Dates from the 16th century. Once a property of the Cochrane family. Visited by Frederick Chopin in 1848.

A castle in the middle of a housing scheme on the outskirts of Johnstone. Category B Listed http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB35602 , described as follows on Canmore https://canmore.org.uk/site/43213/johnstone-castle ... ""Johnstoun, an old possession of the Nisbets, came from them to the Wallaces, continued six generations a house of good account, now decayed". W Macfarlane 1907 Johnstone Castle, now situated in a modern housing scheme, was originally named "Easter Cochran" and owned by the family of that ilk, its name changed in 1733 when it was acquired by the Houstons of Johnstone. they added to and altered the former mainly 16th century fortalice in the years that followed. Now that the estate has been taken over by the burgh, most of the extended mansion has been pulled down and only the original part is left, though much scarred by 19th century 'improvements'. It is now used as a store. The castle as it now stands is L-shaped and consists of a comparatively little-altered main block of three storyes and a garret, lying E-W, with a wing, now built in the form of a massive Gothic tower, projecting N and rising a storey higher. Apart from two tiny windows at basement level, and others built up, the wing has been very much altered. The hall, on the first floor of the main block, has also been much altered, but still retains a garderobe and a very deep window embrasure, giving the impression of a nucleus older than the 16th century. N Tranter 1970."