Cally Palace Hotel
The Cally Palace Hotel , formerly Cally House , is a classicist mansion that is now used as a hotel. It is embedded in a park with a golf course and is located off the A75 around 1.5 km south of the Scottish town of Gatehouse of Fleet in the Council Area Dumfries and Galloway . In 1971 the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.
history
In the 12th century was on the strategically important location as near the Big Water of Fleet designated estuary of the Water of Fleet a moth . Two centuries later, John Craigie of Dalmeny owned the lands. There was a reinforced structure there, probably a tower house , which is likely to have resembled the Cardoness Castle on the opposite bank of the Fleet . By marriage, the lands came into the possession of the Stewart clan in the 14th century . They sold Cally to Clan Lennox in the same century and the property remained in family ownership until 1658. From theBlaeu-Atlas can be seen that in 1654 there was a fortification with surrounding parks and a bridge over the Water of Fleet at the site.
After no male heir had claimed, the lands of Cally passed to Anna Lennox , who was married to Richard Murray . Inherited within the family, they came into the possession of Alexander Murray of Broughton , who in 1740 acquired the town seat of Broughton House in Kirkcudbright . James Murray inherited Cally and commissioned Isaac Ware to design a Palladian mansion. However, the pompous design was never realized. In the 1760s, the young architect Robert Mylne came up with another design. This was implemented on a smaller scale and construction was completed in 1765. In order to enable the redesign of the Gatehouse of Fleet, in the course of which Murray's seat had to be demolished, he moved to Cally House.
The surrounding parks have been developed over the centuries. In addition to the construction of various outbuildings, Cally House has also been expanded and redesigned several times. Inherited within the family, in 1904 it fell to James William Baillie from Leicestershire, England . He took the name Murray Baillie , but moved into the Cushat Wood estate and leased Cally House. The last tenant was Ranbir Singh , the Maharajah of Jind . In 1833 the family sold the property. The following year it was bought by a hotelier who also ran the Palace Hotel in Fort William . That same year, Cally House opened as the Cally Palace Hotel and has been used as such ever since. Today it belongs to the McMillan Hotels .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ a b c Nic Coombey: Cally Story ., 2000
- ↑ Information about the hotel
Web links
- Network presence of the hotel
- Entry on Cally Palace Hotel in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 54 ° 52 '10.5 " N , 4 ° 10' 59.9" W.