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Dumfries House is a Palladian country house in Ayrshire, Scotland.It is located within a large estate, around two miles (3 km) west of Cumnock.Noted for being one of the few such houses with much of its original 18th-century furniture still present, including specially commissioned Thomas Chippendale pieces, the house and estate is now owned by The King's Foundation, a charity which maintains ...
Moat Brae is a Georgian townhouse designed by Walter Newall in Dumfries, Scotland. It was built in 1823 in the Greek revival style. J. M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan, played in the house and garden as a child from the ages of 13-18 whilst at school at Dumfries Academy. Barrie was later presented with the Freedom of the Burgh of Dumfries in ...
Dumfries House has undergone a festive makeover ahead of a number of Christmas dining experiences hosted by the King’s charity. The 18th century property, near Cumnock in east Ayrshire, has more ...
Numbers 17 & 19, 27 & 29, 43-51, 44,46 & 48, 50 & 52, 54, 56, 58 & 60, 61, 144, 199, 204 & 206, the Assay Office, and the Queens Arms Public House are listed buildings. Lock number 9 of the Farmer's Bridge flight of the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal stands under Newhall Street, with a lock gate on either side of the bridge.
Dumfries House featured in the ITV documentary A Royal Grand Design this week which followed its renovation over more than a decade. The King, as the then-Prince of Wales, led a consortium which ...
Blue plaque on Bennetts Hill.. Bennetts Hill was created as part of the 19th-century Inge estate development. [2] 11 Bennetts Hill (now demolished) was the birthplace of the artist Edward Burne-Jones in 1833, a fact commemorated by a Birmingham Civic Society blue plaque on the site.
Lefnoreis is recorded as being the most important of the three castles in the parish of Old Cumnock, the other two being Borland Castle and Terringzean Castle. [4]One recorded suggestion in regard of the occupied castle or fortified mansion is that two castles existed, one near the present day stables that was occupied until Dumfries House was built with its foundations still evident in 1885 ...
Hurst Street is the location of the Birmingham Hippodrome, a theatre specialising in ballet, opera, and musicals, which serves as the home of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. Immigrants from Hong Kong moved into the area around Hurst Street in the decades following World War II, and by the 1980s the area was recognized as the city's Chinese Quarter ...