Cumbernauld House, Cumbernauld

Name: Cumbernauld House
Address: Cumbernauld, United Kingdom

#4 among attractions in Cumbernauld

Top attraction, Park, Relax in park

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Cumbernauld House is an 18th-century Vivido Scottish country house located in Cumbernauld, Scotland. It is located near in the Cumbernauld Glen, close to Cumbernauld Village, at grid reference NS772759. The house is situated on the site of Cumbernauld Castle, which was besieged by General Monck in 1651. It was built in 1731, to designs by William Adam, for John Fleming, 6th Earl of Wigtown. In the later 20th century the house was used as offices, first by Cumbernauld Development Corporation, then North Lanarkshire Council, and latterly by DH Morris, who went into liquidation in March 2007. The building lay empty for a decade until it was developed into luxury apartments. Cumbernauld House is a category A listed building. ()

Elevation: 351 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 55°57'35"N, 3°58'0"W

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Cumbernauld House – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Cumbernauld town centre, Antonine Centre, Cumbernauld College, Cumbernauld Castle.

1.3 miSW
Shopping, Shopping centre
Cumbernauld town centre, Cumbernauld
33 min walk • Cumbernauld town centre is the commercial centre of the new town of Cumbernauld, Scotland.
1.2 miSW
Shopping, Shopping centre
Antonine Centre, Cumbernauld
32 min walk • The Antonine Centre is a shopping centre in the Scottish New Town of Cumbernauld. The centre has 350,000 sq ft of retail space including a 100,000 sq ft Tesco Extra and a 43,000 sq ft Dunnes which closed in 2018,This was replaced by a TJ Hughes in 2019.
1.2 miSW
Library
Cumbernauld College, Cumbernauld
31 min walk • New College Lanarkshire is a further education institution in Scotland in North Lanarkshire. The college was created on November 2013 from the merger of Cumbernauld College and Motherwell College, and in 2014 it absorbed Coatbridge College.
~320 ftNW
Forts and castles
Cumbernauld Castle, Cumbernauld
2 min walk • Cumbernauld Castle was the predecessor of Cumbernauld House in the Park in Cumbernauld. The Motte of the earliest castle survives, and stones of the second castle are incorporated in the present house.
1 miNW
Forts and castles
Westerwood
25 min walk • Westerwood is an area in the north-east of Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Historically it was the site of a Roman Fort of which a video reconstruction has been produced. In the past two decades, new housing developments have been built around the Westerwood Hotel and Golf Course.
1.3 miNE
Forts and castles
Castle Cary Castle
35 min walk • Castle Cary Castle is a fifteenth-century tower house, about 6 miles from Falkirk, in the former county of Stirlingshire, Scotland. It is less than 3 miles from Cumbernauld Village. It is located near to the site of one of the principal forts of the Roman Antonine Wall.
1.3 miSW
Neighbourhood
Carbrain, Cumbernauld
33 min walk • Carbrain /kar 'bren/ is a neighbourhood in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire in Scotland. It gets a brief mention on William Roy's eighteenth century map of the Scottish Lowlands. In the nineteenth century it was no more than a farm steading. An early map shows just a few buildings existed in 1864.
0.5 miSW
Neighbourhood
Kildrum, Cumbernauld
14 min walk • Kildrum was the first area to be constructed in Cumbernauld new town, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It provided housing for the workers at the Burroughs factory at Old Inns, the first factory in Cumbernauld New Town.
1.3 miSW
Neighbourhood
Seafar, Cumbernauld
34 min walk • Seafar is an area of the town of Cumbernauld. The original Seafar sand pit and farm were in the middle of what is now the A8011. Early in the new town's history Seafar was more distinct from Ravenswood and Muirhead than it now is possibly due to the building schedule and signage on paths.
0.7 miW
Sport, Sport venue
Guy's Meadow, Cumbernauld
18 min walk • Cumbernauld United Football Club are a football club based in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. They play at Guy's Meadow in the Cumbernauld Village area of the town.