What is recorded here

Carriden House in Bo'ness has stood since the sixteenth century as a tower house, later becoming a nineteenth-century country residence before serving as a First World War hospital. The building has absorbed at least three different human needs: defence, display, and care for the wounded. Its walls may have shaken during cannon fire, hosted lavish dinners, or rattled with the footsteps of nurses carrying feverish soldiers through dark corridors. The same stones witnessed each transformation without complaint.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Bo'ness, Carriden House as Country House (19th Century), Hospital (first World War), Tower House (16th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Carriden House was originally a 16th-century tower house, later expanded into a country house in the 19th century, and was used as a hospital during the First World War. It is remembered for its long historical continuity and adaptation to different uses over several centuries.

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