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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 ...
Friars' Carse is a mansion house and estate situated (NX 926 850) 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southeast of Auldgirth on the main road (A76) to Dumfries, Parish of Dunscore, Scotland. The property is located on the west bank of the River Nith and is known for its strong associations with Robert Burns who lived for a while at the nearby Ellisland farm.
Raehills House is located in the northeast of Dumfries and Galloway approximately four kilometers northwest of Johnstonebridge. The Kinnel Water runs a few hundred meters to the east . Raehills House originally had an L-shaped floor plan, but after the extensions it is more of an elongated area. Stevens' style was based on Robert Adam's work .
Craigenputtock (usually spelled by the Carlyles as Craigenputtoch) [1] is an estate in Scotland where Thomas Carlyle lived from 1828 to 1834. He wrote several of his early works there, including Sartor Resartus. The estate's name incorporates the Scots words craig, meaning hill, referring in this case to a whinstone hill, and puttock, or small ...
Craigdarroch House 2005. Craigdarroch is a house near Moniaive, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.It was the seat of the Chief of the Dumfriesshire Fergussons for 600 years. . Built by William Adam in 1729 over the old house dating from the earliest records (14th cen
Terregles House was a late 18th-century country house, located near Terregles, in the historical county of Dumfries-shire around 2 miles west of Dumfries in Scotland. It replaced an earlier tower house , which had served as the seat of the Lords Herries , and later the Earls of Nithsdale , until William Maxwell , the 5th Earl, forfeited his ...
Garlieston, Sorbie, Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom Coordinates 54°46′45″N 4°22′02″W / 54.77923°N 4.36736°W / 54.77923; -4
In 1999 Scotland's first multi-institutional university campus was established in Dumfries, in the 85-acre (340,000 m 2) Crichton estate. In order of campus presence it is host to the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) (formerly known as University of Paisley & Bell College), Dumfries & Galloway College , and the University of Glasgow .