Jamie Murray
Jamie Murray
2023-01-28
Quality fast and reliable service with a cracking bunch of lads definitely recommended
Bill Mitchell
Bill Mitchell
2021-09-14
Contracted this company to clear the flat of my deceased mother. Two young guys cleared EVERYTHING out of the rented property, including furniture, carpets, ornaments, white goods and food/household products, politely, efficiently, and respectfully. Excellent service.
Charles winter
Charles winter
2021-05-21
The guys from Northern House Clearance have just cleared a house for me in Scotland. The house was packed not only with a lifetimes worth of memories, but all the clutter that goes with it. Within 2 days it was emptied down to the floorboards. A great job from a good team of lads. Highly recommended.
Graeme hatton
Graeme hatton
2021-02-24
An excellent 5 star service. Firstly the compassion shown due to the circumstances which resulted in having to use their services, not just on the phone but by the team who arrived, on time, to perform the job. Above all a friendly attitude goes a long way in stressful times. Professional from the start to the end of the day and due to the amount of clutter a second day was needed. I could not believe how much was cleared in just one day, it was as if the clutter had it's own clutter to clear. Hope that I never need to use them again, but if I have to clear another property they will be the only people that I call. Highly recommend them. G.Hatton. Cheshire.
Lorna Hamilton
Lorna Hamilton
2021-02-05
Fantastic service. Highly recommend. The team was so helpful.
Richard Foster
Richard Foster
2020-11-26
The guys from Northern house clearing cleared my deceased brothers house which was in a state. They were very discrete and great guys very understanding at such a sad time. Great job guys thank you.
Xiu Yun Chen
Xiu Yun Chen
2020-11-25
This is a good company would highly recommend these guys. Very efficent and helpful.
Laura
Laura
2020-11-05
Highly recommended. From my initial enquiry I found them to be efficient and professional and was given an immediate quote. On the day the guys arrived promptly and were friendly, helpful and thorough. I would not hesitate to use this company again and I would recommend to others. I felt in good hands and I, m very happy with the service I received.
Ruth Lawrence
Ruth Lawrence
2020-08-22
The team arrived bang on time and began work immediately. They continued for five solid days and completed the entire clearance of my late uncles house, which was a case of extreme hoarding over many decades. They even removed carpets, curtains and swept up so the house was ready for sale. They were exeptionally hard working, polite and charged a reasonable price for this incredibly difficult job. Terrific service, absolutely recommended.

History of Culross

When you stroll through the narrow cobbled streets of the quiet old burgh of Culross, it is not difficult to imagine yourself back in the 16th or 17th century. Almost the entire village is a living museum, as all the pan-tiled houses with their crow-step gables have been carefully restored. But there’s a lot more to Culross than a group of picturesque houses. Today, it is a lively community where the burgher’s lives weave a web from past to present, keeping the buildings of Culross more alive than any museum could. It is the perfect venue for musical and artistic events.

The name Culross derives from the two Gaelic words ‘Cuileann Ros’, meaning point where the holly grows. St. Serf founded a monastery here in the 5th century, and it was also in Culross that Glasgow’s patron saint, St. Mungo was born and educated. It later became a busy and prosperous sea port, marketing and exporting coal and salt. King James VI granted Culross the status of Royal Burgh due to the influence of an important local resident, Sir George Bruce.

The Town House or Tolbooth, Culross

It is one of just over twenty surviving Scottish tolbooths dating from the period prior to the Union of the Parliaments in 1707. There was an earlier tolbooth in Culross, in existence in 1588, but its exact location is not recorded.

The Town House fronts the Sandhaven, standing at its north-east side, and dates from 1626 (date on ground floor lintel). It was two storeys and a garret high with a steeply-pitched slated roof but this roof was later inserted by a tall tower, a three-stage central steeple, being erected in 1783 with a steep ogee roof. On the 1861 OS map the high water mark was just 140 feet away.

The Town House was renovated for the burgh by Ian G Lindsay and Partners in 1957–59.

The ground floor is vaulted and contains two large rooms and two smaller ones. Until about the beginning of the 19th century one of the larger rooms was used as a prison, and the smaller rooms were presumably cells. On the first floor, which is approached by the double flight of steps, is a central lobby, having the council chamber on the west side and the “debtors’ room” on the east. Both rooms had original painted open-beam ceilings. The ceiling of the east room has an unique pattern of repeated draped heads and cherubs’ heads, stars and faceted rectangles.

The upper stair is lit by a small window and leads up to the garret.The east gable is tabled while the west is crow-stepped and carries a belfry which may have replaced an earlier one.In the roof was a ‘dreary, fireless place where the unfortunate women accused of witchcraft used to be confined’. This garret provided extra prison accommodation.

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