Keir House

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Keir House

Keir House is a mansion near the Scottish town of Dunblane in the Stirling Council Area . In 1971 the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A. A total of 27 other buildings are individually listed on the property, including two more Category A buildings with the manor and the South Lodge. The entire property is also listed on the Scottish Landscaping Register . The highest rating “outstanding” was awarded in four of seven categories.

history

In 1448 the property came into the possession of the Stirling clan . Between 1517 and 1553, Keir was expanded. It is very likely that the nucleus of today's building was created during this period. On the Jacobite side , the Stirling clan supported the Jacobite uprisings, as a result of which the clan was expropriated. Even so, the clan used Keir House in the centuries that followed. Keir House and the enclosing parks and gardens were expanded and redesigned in the 1750s and 1760s. Profits from the clan's agricultural holdings in Jamaica were used to finance the project .

The work was also gradually continued in the course of the 19th century. The Scottish architect David Hamilton was responsible for the extensive work on Keir House and the construction of various outbuildings between 1820 and 1831 . As Laird of Keir (1847 until his death in 1878), William Stirling-Maxwell commissioned Alfred Jenoure to redesign the property. James Niven redesigned the gardens. The Scottish architect Robert Rowand Anderson revised and expanded Keir House around 1900 .

description

Keir House is isolated around 1.5 km southwest of Dunblane and northwest of Bridge of Allan near the transition from the M9 to the A9 . The three-story mansion is essentially Georgian in design. Its facades are plastered with Harl .

David Bryce designed the estate, located around 500 m northeast of the manor house, in 1832. Between 1855 and 1861, Stirling-Maxwell had the U-shaped structure, which was partly designed in the neo-Renaissance style, expanded.

The South Lodge with its Doric gateway once marked the southeastern boundary of the property along an access road. Today the M9 runs at its original location, which is why the structure was moved to the motorway construction in 1969.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  4. ↑ a b c Garden and Designed Landscape - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ↑ Entry on South Lodge  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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Coordinates: 56 ° 9 ′ 57.7 "  N , 3 ° 58 ′ 57.9"  W.