Kames Castle
Kames Castle is one with battlements provided cottage on the Isle of Bute in the Scottish county Buteshire , today administrative unit Argyll and Bute .
The house on Kames Bay near Port Bannatyne consists of a 14th century tower to which a residential house was added in the 18th century. There are 8 hectares of gardens around the country house, including a 0.8 hectare fenced garden from the 18th century.
Originally, Kames Castle was the Bannatynes family seat and is considered one of the oldest continuously inhabited houses in Scotland.
owner
Sir William McLeod Bannatyne (1743-1833) was an excellent lawyer and judge in Edinburgh . In 1812 he lost his fortune and was forced to sell Kames.
That year James Hamilton bought the country house.
The literary critic and essayist John Sterling was born at Kames Castle and spent the first years of his youth there. Thomas Carlyle describes the country house in his Sterling biography as "a kind of run-down baron's residence to which a small farm was then attached".
In the mid-late 20th century, Kames Castle was a local authority children's home.
Today the country house is in private hands. A number of farmhouses in the area are rented out as vacation homes.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kames Castle . Archived from the original on May 5, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 7, 2007.
- ↑ MyClan.com: Bannatyne Clan . Archived from the original on March 19, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 7, 2007.
- ^ Scottish Nation: Bannatyne . Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ↑ British Listed Buildings: Bute, Kames Castle, Walled Garden Cottage, Rear Wing . Retrieved September 25, 2017.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 51 '44 " N , 5 ° 5' 45" W.