What is recorded here

Cumbernauld House stands in North Lanarkshire as an 18th-century country house built in 1731 by William Adam for John Fleming, 6th Earl of Wigtown, on the site of a earlier castle that hosted Mary, Queen of Scots before its great hall collapsed and killed several men. The castle itself became stables after the new house rose, then burned when dragoons destroyed it in 1746, leaving one wall still visible among allotments. The house later passed through the Elphinstone and Maude-Fleming families, was gutted by fire in 1877, sold to the Burns family, and eventually became offices before lying empty for a decade and being rebuilt as luxury apartments.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cumbernauld House as Castle (14th Century), House (18th Century), Stable(s) (18th 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.

Cumbernauld House was originally a 14th-century castle associated with the Boyd family, later replaced in the 18th century by a grand mansion built by the Montgomerie family, Earls of Eglinton. It is remembered as a significant seat of the nobility in the Cumbernauld area and reflects the region's evolving architectural and social history.

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