The real Midhope Castle

Midhope Castle is a 16th-century tower house of five storeys and a garret, to which has been added a later and lower wing. Two-storey bartizans crown three of the corners, although their conical roofs have gone, a caphouse for the stair crowning the fourth. The roof is steeply pitched. The tower forms one side of a courtyard, and there is a fine walled garden and a 17th-century lectern doocot

The entrance, at first floor level, is reached by a short external stair. The basement is vaulted, and the wing contained the kitchen. The original stair was turnpike, but a scale-and-platt stair was later added. The hall, on the first floor, has been subdivided, and the inside of the tower has been much altered. There were some old wall paintings and plasterwork, but these have been lost.
  ‘Meedop’ is marked on Blaeu’s map of The Lothians in its own park, then ‘Midhop’ on Adair’s map of West Lothian, when the castle is shown in enclosures and gardens.