Aberuchill Castle

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Aberuchill Castle

Aberuchill Castle is a residential tower 3 km west of the village of Comrie in the Scottish county of Perthshire (now the Council Area Perth and Kinross ). The actual residential tower dates from the beginning of the 17th century. It was rebuilt and expanded in the 19th century. The residential tower itself without its west wing is listed by Historic Scotland as a Category A historic building. The property is listed on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland .

history

1596 the lands of Aberuchill family were Campbell of Lawers given in fief. The oldest part of the residential tower dates from 1602. In 1642 Sir James Drummond bought Aberuchill Castle and until 1858 the property was bequeathed to the family. The Drummonds had the Gothic east wing added to the residential tower. The interior was redesigned at the beginning of the 19th century.

In 1858 Sir David Dundas of Dunira bought the house and in 1864 sold it to George Dewhurst of Lymm , Cheshire . Between 1869 and 1874, the west wing and other additions were built, possibly according to plans by David Bryce .

William Mostyn-Owen inherited Aberuchill Castle in 1947 after the death of his father and lived there in 1968 in "23 rooms or so" in a grand piano with his wife, the Italian writer Gaia Servadio , but later sold it.

The Dewhursts sold the property in the 1980s, but it remained in private hands. In 2005 it was heard that Russian steel tycoon Vladimir Sergeyevich Lissin had bought the castle and its 120 hectare property for £ 6.8 million.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b c d Garden and Designed Landscape - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ Humphrey Burton: William Mostyn-Owen obituary . The Guardian Online, July 20, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
  4. ↑ Jim Hicks: Italian Sexport to Scotland in TIME LIFE , June 7, 1968. pp. 83-84. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
  5. ↑ Oligarch of the Glen: Russia's second richest buys £ 7m estate . In: The Scotsman . December 11, 2005. Retrieved January 19, 2017.

Web links

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Coordinates: 56 ° 21 '57.6 "  N , 4 ° 1' 58.8"  W.