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The Tholsel — West Gate

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The Tholsel — West Gate
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Four-storey towerhouse, built c.1500, with square-plan clock drum surmounted by octagonal lantern, added c. 1750 and round-headed recess in south elevation is result of later alterations. Historical use as tholsel. Copper roof to lantern, with metal weather-vane finial and painted louvered fittings. Clock tower with clock faces on three sides and with moulded cornice. Painted rendered sandstone walls. Battered bases to south-east and south-west corners. Square-headed window openings to clock drum, loops elsewhere. Pointed arch entrance door to south elevation with replacement timber door. Murder hole and seventeenth-century fireplaces to interior. Situated on a narrow one-way street.

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