Robertland House

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Robert Country House is a country house in Stewarton in the Scottish management unit East Ayrshire .

history

Robertson wrote in 1823: "The remarkably proud six-story house was recently demolished." Sir William Cunninghame of Fairlie was then referred to as "of Fairlie and Robertland".

Pigot gives 1837 Alexander Kerr, Esq. or Moorpark , a merchant from Glasgow , as a resident of Robertland; he is said to have bought Robertland and Haysmuir Farm around 1813. Kerr, born in Stewarton, spent several years in America; he was one of the wealthy and influential "Tobacco Lords". He was married to Diana Barr (born January 31, 1786, † June 9, 1868) and lived from March 22, 1775 to May 5, 1847. He is buried in the Laigh Kirk in Stewarton.

The dates and descriptions suggest that the "proud six-story house" was built on the north side of Swinzie Burn after the old castle on the south side was demolished. This house was again demolished when the house that is still preserved was built around 1820.

The present Robertland House was designed in 1820 by David Hamilton , who also planned Dunlop House . Hamilton worked as an architect for the owner of the estate, Alexander Kerr . The house has an ornamental gable and columned windows in an otherwise standard facade.

Alexander Kerr succeeded his son John James Kerr in 1847 . Later residents of the house were: John McIntyre , Glasgow iron merchant; Thomas McIntyre , Member of Parliament from Sorn Castle ; Wallace Fairweather , Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant from Mearns Castle and a service from Glasgow. They were tenants of the house until Mr. George Muir , Justice of the Peace of Howard Street in Kilmarnock , bought the property from J. J. Kerr's trustees after the mansion was damaged by fire in 1914. The house has been completely repaired and modernized, resulting in the condition you can see today.

The property was put up for sale in 1913; it had an area of ​​9.08 km² with 290,000 m² of open forest, 0.68 km² of bog, 26 farms and hunting rights for Glenouther Moor . Nether Robertland, Fulshaw, Clonherb, Broadmoss, Couldhame, Braehead, Hairshaw, Lintbrae, Overhill, Burnfoot, Polkelly (East and West), Clunch (High and Low), Derclabboch and other parts were part of the property at the time of sale.

One of the better known residents of the house was Dr John Cunningham , who was visited annually by the townspeople of Stewarton on his property. His descendants donated Cunningham-Watt Park to the city of Stewarton .

In 2004, Robertland belonged to Alan Burns Williamson, Baron Robertland . Sir Edward Hunter-Blair, 8th Baronet , "married" Jonet Clemency Wilson Reid of Robertland, daughter of David Wilson Reid, Baron Robertland , and archivist of the University of Glasgow , and his wife, Diana Rosamond Angell , Secretary of the Baronetage of Scotland in 1973 -1997. The current owner (since 2005) is Brian Douglas Parsons of Robertland, Baron of Ormiston and of Robertland .

Driveway

An old road crossed Annick Water on the bridge near the place called "Castle" in the Templehouse-Darlington area of ​​Stewarton and led up to Robertland Castle and to Nether Robertland on the east bank of the river. John Thomson's 1832 map is the last to show this road and that there was no driveway down from Old Glasgow Road . The driveway on the east side of the river no longer exists and the driveway leads down from a gatehouse on Old Glasgow Road and crosses Annick Water on Robertland Bridge .

Robertland House and the Suffragettes

Robertland House and the ruins of the old castle

On Friday March 12, 1914, the house was empty and waiting for a buyer. Two suffragettes broke through a window in the greenhouse and set the building on fire. The fire brigade had great difficulty getting water and so the front building burned out. The rear building and the outbuildings were saved and the front building was rebuilt.

The suffragettes left two postcards to indicate that the arson was in retaliation for acts against Emmeline Pankhurst and to force the church to act independently against the state on the issue of women's suffrage (Milligan). The footprints in the snow could be followed to Fulshaw , where the two had parked a car and from where they fled towards Glasgow. The event dominated the national press at the time.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Robertson: A Topographical Discription of Ayrshire; more particulary of Cunninghame . Cunninghame Press, Irvine 1820. p. 330.
  2. ↑ James D. Dobie, JS Dobie (editor): Cunninghame, Topographized by Timothy Pont 1604-1608, with continuations and illustrative notices . John Tweed, Glasgow 1876. p. 354.
  3. ↑ Robert Close: Ayrshire and Arran in An Illustrated Architectural Guide . Royal Incorporation of Architects of Scotland, 1992. ISBN 1-873190-06-9 . P. 121.
  4. ↑ a b c Robertland House . Stewarton.org. Archived from the original on March 27, 2011. 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 January 19, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stewarton.org
  5. ↑ Robert Country Estate Sale Catalog.
  6. ^ Lainshaw Map.
  7. ^ Dane Love: Ayrshire: Discovering a County . Fort Publishing, Ayr 2003. ISBN 0-9544461-1-9 . P. 99.

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Coordinates: 55 ° 41 ′ 30.4 "  N , 4 ° 28 ′ 49.8"  W.