Lainshaw House

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The restored Lainshaw House (2007) with its different construction phases

Lainshaw House is a country house about 1.6 km southwest of Stewarton in the Scottish management unit East Ayrshire . The house over Annick Water includes parts of the ruins of Lainshaw Castle and Historic Scotland has listed it as a Category B Historic Building.

history

View of the renovated Lainshaw House from Cunninghamhead Road (2007)

The property belonged first to Clan Stewart and then to Clan Montgomery . The 10th Laird, Walter Montgomerie-Cunningham , lost his fortune in the American Revolutionary War . William Cunninghame , one of the "tobacco kings" who had made his fortune in America in the years 1748–1762, bought the property in 1779. He expanded the property further and granted the Montgomeries a buyback right in the event that the costs of the expansion were reimbursed to him. The Montgomeries were never able to do this. During this time a country house was built including the castle ruins.

William Cunninghame was married three times and had a total of 14 children. He disinherited his two eldest sons, Thomas and Alexander , and so his third son, William Cunninghame , inherited the property after his father's death in 1799, but did not live there until 1804. William Cunninghame was a religious eccentric, which led to many lawsuits. He also published a number of eccentric books, including one against swearing. He never married after hearing that his childhood sweetheart had expressed himself in unacceptably bad language. After his death in 1849, the property fell to his half-brother, John Cunninghame from Duchrae , who in turn was succeeded in 1864 by his son, John William Herbert Cunninghame , a captain of the 2nd Life Guards . In 1867 he married Emily , the eldest daughter of Major George Graham .

The house stayed in the family until the municipal administration bought it in 1947 and converted it into a retirement home. It later fell into disrepair but was renovated and converted into condominiums.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b A. H. Millar: The Castles and Mansions of Ayrshire . Grimsay Press, Glasgow 1885. ISBN 1-84530-019-X . P. 108.
  2. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ James Paterson: History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton . Volume IV. Part I: Cunningham . J. Stillie, Edinburgh 1863-1866. P. 587.
  4. ↑ James Paterson: History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton . Volume IV. Part I: Cunningham . J. Stillie, Edinburgh 1863-1866. P. 588.
  5. ↑ AH Millar: The Castles and Mansions of Ayrshire . Grimsay Press, Glasgow 1885. ISBN 1-84530-019-X . P. 78.
  6. ↑ James D. Dobie, JS Dobie (editor): Cunninghame, Topographized by Timothy Pont 1604-1608, with continuations and illustrative notices . John Tweed, Glasgow 1876. p. 318.

Web links

Commons : Lainshaw House  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 29.7 "  N , 4 ° 31 ′ 47.5"  W.