Orchardton Castle
Orchardton Castle is a castle in the village of Auchencairn in the Scottish county of Kirkcudbrightshire (now part of the Dumfries and Galloway administrative division ). The castle, built in the Scottish Baronial Style, overlooks the Solway Firth .
history
The present castle was built by William Douglas Robinson-Douglas in the 1870s on the site of a small country house from 1769.
The 1769 house was built by Sir Robert Maxwell, 7th Baronet of Orchardton , who married a McLellan from MacLellan's Castle . Parts of the roof structure and masonry from Orchardton Tower were used for this. So a new house was created in a better location near the sea. Construction costs, however, drove Sir Maxwell into bankruptcy , and in 1786 the property fell into the hands of James Douglas , a Liverpool merchant . Then he bequeathed it to William Douglas Robinson-Douglas, who commissioned the new castle in 1878.
In 1944 the castle was converted into a military hospital for wounded officers. After the war it became a hotel. In 1951 the property was sold but remained a hotel until 1960. Orchardton Castle served as a school between 1960 and 1981, after which it was used for on-site courses and conferences and as a home for artists. In 2003 the house was sold again, and the following two years were renovated: central heating was installed and the electrical distribution was renewed.
The owners fell for a farmer when they wanted to sell the castle in 2012 and had to straighten things out for the next three and a half years. In 2016 the property was offered again for two million pounds. In May 2018, the owner offered the castle and the two-hectare property as the main prize in a lottery that she had organized.
Since April 1990, both the main house are also about 100 meters to the southwest located building with stables as Listed Building expelled category B.
description
The castle has around 48 rooms, including seventeen bedrooms and three separate apartments, a cinema, libraries and an outdoor sauna. There are palm trees and other rare trees in the gardens and parks . They extend over an area of over two hectares. Pheasants , deer and peacocks are often found here .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Orchardton Tower, Castle and estate . The Douglas Archives. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- ↑ Félice Gritti: With five pounds you are there. Spiegel Online, May 15, 2018, accessed on the same day.
swell
- George BL Paterson: Orchardton House, Auchencairn, by Castle Douglas . Mackintosh School of Architecture; University of Glasgow, 1983.
Web links
- Listed Building Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- Listed Building Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
Coordinates: 54 ° 51 ′ 33.2 " N , 3 ° 51 ′ 15" W.