Hailes Castle photos, Location, Date, River Tyne East Lothian building images, Historic Scottish architecture pictures
Hailes Castle, Scotland : Architecture
Historic building east of Haddington, East Lothian, southeastern Scotland, UK, with a 14th century keep.
post updated 31 March 2025
Location: east of Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland
Directions: head 1.5m south-west of East Linton, east of Haddington
16 December 2023
Hailes Castle
The castle stands on a promontory on the Scottish River Tyne, blocking its strategic route, and preying on the route to Edinburgh. Within the 13th century curtain wall is the 14th century keep, to which ranges were added in the next two centuries.
Hailes Castle photos © Adrian Welch 170207
The major remaining works is the West Tower, a square donjon, which dwarfs the remains of the central tower that the Gourlays built, probably a rebuilding on the 16th century. Fifteenth century work includes a roofless chamber in which the remains of what appear to be an ambry and a piscina suggest it was a chapel rather than a hall.
Ancient East Lothian building photos with lumix camera © Isabelle Lomholt 17 February 2007
There is also a vaulted basement bakehouse and brewhouse from this period. The original tower was used as a dovecot after it ceased to be occupied. Of the East Tower, only a finger of stonework remains.
Hailes Castle is now a ruin overlooking the River Tyne (located immeidately to the north of this ancient structure).
The building incorporates a fortified manor of 13th century, extended in the 14th & 15th centuries.
Histroic East Lothian building images © Adrian Welch
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This Ancient East Lothian building is located a few minutes south west of East Linton, in south east Scotland, about 45 minutes drive east from the Scottish capital city of Edinburgh.
Castles in East Lothian near to Hailes Castle
Historic Scottish Property Designs – key architectural selection below:
Lennoxlove House, south of Haddington, East Lothian
photo © Adrian Welch
Lennoxlove House
Dunbar Castle, East Lothian
Dunbar Castle
Tantallon Castle, near North Berwick, East Lothian
picture © Adrian Welch
Tantallon Castle
Historic Buildings near Edinburgh
Crichton Castle, ruined building near the village of Crichton, Midlothian
Crichton Castle
Historic Scottish Properties
Hill House, Helensburgh, northwest of Glasgow
House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park, south west of Glasgow city centre
Buildings / photos for the Hailes Castle Building – Historic East Lothian Architecture on the River Tyne, southeast Scotland, United Kingdom, page welcome.
Hailes Castle – Website: www.historic-scotland.gov.uk
