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Bastle houses (5 P) C. Country estates in Scotland (1 C, 6 P) ... Pages in category "Rural Scotland" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
The corporation is one of the largest property managers in Scotland, managing assets worth £568.2 million as of 2022. [2] These include over 35,565 hectares (87,880 acres) of land in rural Scotland, the majority of which is let for farming, residential, commercial, sporting and mineral operations.
This category attempts to list all country houses, stately homes, manors, country retreats and estates, mansions and houses in Scotland; anything of historical architectural note which was used as a residence by a noble family or persons of esteem in history.
Linlithgow Palace, the first building to bear that title in Scotland, extensively rebuilt along Renaissance principles from the fifteenth century.. The origins of private estate houses in Scotland are in the extensive building and rebuilding of royal palaces that probably began under James III (r. 1460–88), accelerated under James IV (r. 1488–1513), and reached its peak under James V (r ...
Rural landscape at Mouswald Mouswald Parish Church. Mouswald is a rural village slightly east of Dumfries in south-west Scotland. ... on the property market for sale ...
This list includes the historic houses, castles, abbeys, museums and other buildings and monuments in the care of Historic Environment Scotland (HES). HES (Scottish Gaelic: Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil Alba) is a non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, responsible for investigating, caring for and promoting Scotland’s historic environment.
The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 has three parts, with provisions regarding three areas of land rights in Scotland; the creation of a legal framework for land access, the community right to buy and crofting community right to buy. [12] The first part formalises the tradition in Scotland of unhindered access to open countryside.
The stone building at Knap of Howar, Orkney, one of the oldest surviving houses in north-west Europe. The oldest house for which there is evidence in Scotland is the oval structure of wooden posts found at South Queensferry near the Firth of Forth, dating from the Mesolithic period, about 8240 BCE. [1]