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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 ...
Since King Charles acquired Dumfries House in 2007, it has become a “significant visitor attraction,” and various activities on the estate employ more than 150 people, according to The ...
Mount Stuart House, Bute: Dumfries House, Cardiff Castle, Bute House, Luton Hoo and Lansdowne House: Earl of Elgin: Broomhall House, Fife: Culross Abbey House Earl of Southesk: Elsick House, Kincardineshire: Duff House, Banffshire: Earl of Wemyss and March: Gosford House, East Lothian, Stanway House in Gloucestershire, Neidpath Castle, Peebles ...
A new Victorian Mount Stuart House was then built [10] and was the first in Scotland to have electric lighting throughout, as well as having the world's first heated pool. [11] Although Mount Stuart House is the family seat of the Marquesses of Bute, the Mount Stuart Trust has operated it as a business since 1989. [12]
The Dumfries House dates back to 1754, when William Crichton-Dalrymple sketched out plans for a Palladian-style home with lavish interiors filled with colorful and handcrafted Chippendale ...
Dumfries House near Cumnock is the headquarters of The King’s Foundation, which Charles established to train the next generation of skilled craftspeople – including in fashion and textiles ...
The founder of the dynasty, William Keswick was born in 1834, in Dumfriesshire in the Scottish Lowlands.His grandmother, Jean Jardine Johnstone was an older sister of Dr. William Jardine, the founder of Jardine Matheson & Company His father Thomas Keswick had married Margaret Johnstone, Jardine's niece and daughter of Jean, and entered the Jardine business.
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 ...