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Killochan castle has been described as one of the finest fortified houses in south Scotland. [3] The castle has a five-storey main block, lying east to west, with a higher wing extending northward at the east end. [3] In the re-entrant angle there is a square stair tower, while there is a round tower, with a corbelled-out parapet at one corner.
The property is adjacent to Seton Collegiate Church which is now in the care of Historic Scotland. The house was category A listed as Seton House (GDL00340) in 1987. It was described as a castellated late-Georgian house, one of the most striking of Robert Adam's late houses in the castle style. It was made up of several shaped towers around a ...
Knockderry Castle was offered for sale in summer 2022 following a 22-year-long legal battle that started with business debts allegedly not paid by the owner, Marian Van Overwaele. She became sequestrated (declared bankrupt) in 2000; in March 2022 her brother, George Amil, in whose name the property had been placed, was evicted with his family.
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 ...
In the United Kingdom, large country houses were built on estates in the 18th and 19th centuries to reflect a family's wealth and power, and to accommodate their extended family and a large number of servants required to maintain the house and the family's lifestyle. However, with the diminishing income from farming, the increasing wages of ...
Killiechassie is a country estate and house near Weem, about one mile (two kilometres) northeast of Aberfeldy, [3] in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The estate lies on the banks of the River Tay [4] in some 12 acres (5 hectares), about 74 miles (119 kilometres) north of Edinburgh. It was owned by the Douglas family in the latter part of the 19th ...
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.
Country houses in Angus, Scotland (7 P) Country houses in Argyll and Bute (18 P) B. Country houses in the Scottish Borders (28 P) C. Country houses in ...