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Cowden Hall

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Cowden Hall, Cowdon HallCowdon Hall on the Canmore site or Cowdenhall is an example of a laird's hall-house with a farmstead dating from more peaceful times in the seventeenth century when gun loops, thick defensive walls and well defended entrances were no longer essential and larger windows could be utilised.Alexander, p.154 Eighteenth century additions included an outshot with a cruck roof.Cowdon Hall on the Canmore site Cowden is located in an elevated position overlooking the Neilston Gap and the Levern Water on the lands of the old Barony of Cowden near Neilston in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. Read more on Wikipedia

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