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Tullichewan Castle - The land just to the front of Sheildaig Farm is home to the remains of Tullichewan Castle.  The architect Robert Lugar, who also designed Balloch Castle, designed the castle.  It is the first example in Scotland of an asymmetrical Gothic house.  The Horrocks family purchased the castle in 1817, where they lived until 1843.  The estate was then sold to William Campbell of J & W Campbell, Glasgow merchants.  The estate remained in the Campbell family until the twentieth century. The last owner of the castle was J. Scott Anderson, who lived there from about 1930.  Mr Anderson vacated the castle when the WRNS and naval personnel requisitioned it early on in the Second World War.  Latterly the castle was used as accommodation for workers at the Torpedo factory which now houses the Loch Lomond Factory Outlets. After that it lay unused for many years before being demolished in 1954.

Today, little remains of Tullichewan Castle and the estate, since a dual carriageway now crosses the site of the former castle and the estate is covered by housing developments and the Vale of Leven Hospital. The former stables and a fragment of the tower can be seen from the A82; or, as the land now belongs to Sheildaig Farm if you walk through the wooded land you can see where some of the formal gardens and the Castle's curling pond were situated.  Ask us for directions as most of this area is very overgrown now.  The south lodge gatehouse can still be seen on Main Street, Alexandria, just north of the entrance to Christie Park.  The old walled orchard, which belonged to the estate, is now part of Tullichewan caravan site.

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