![]() ![]() The castle was designated a category A listed building in 1971, its listing describing it as "a castle-style mansion by Robert Adam, circa 1790". The lead roof was removed in 1967 so the owners could declare it as uninhabitable and avoid paying rates. The castle was eventually abandoned, as it was too large and expensive to maintain. During the war, the estate was sold to John Stewart, a produce merchant, who occupied the new castle with his family and farmed the estate. It was occupied by the evacuated Glasgow Deaf and Dumb Institution during the Second World War. The property was sold by the Kennedy family in the 1930s to a timber merchant who leased the castle to the Scottish Youth Hostel Association from 1936 to 1939. #ABANDONED CASTLE RUINS IN SCOTLAND FULL#Asquith's daughter, Violet Bonham Carter recorded her impressions of the castle in a diary entry for 5 August 1905: "Oh for Dalquharran with its Raeburns and ruins and long green garden full of clematis! and the fishless stream and the beech trees!" Ettie Grenfell records a family weekend there in her journal, and a recent biographer of the novelist John Buchan, a friend of Asquith's son, Raymond, suggests Dalquharran as the inspiration for the house Huntingtower, in Buchan's novel of 1922. In the winter of 1904–1905, the castle was rented by H. The cost of the extensions almost bankrupted the family, and from the late 19th century the castle and estate was frequently let. Wings were added in a similar style, designed by Wardrop and Reid of Edinburgh. The castle was extended from 1880–1881 by Francis Thomas Romilly Kennedy, grandson of Thomas Kennedy who died in 1819 he needed space to accommodate his wife and their nine children. The outbuildings were constructed in a simpler style than originally designed by Adam, possible after his death in 1792, with several small lodges arranged symmetrically around the court. To the north of the castle, Adam designed a long low stable range connected at either end to the main building by screen walls with gateways, creating a forecourt. greatly enlarged and converted into a "stately castle" in about 1679". That report states that it was "originally a rectangular keep. Dalquharran Castle (Old Castle) became a listed monument in 1935 as "the remains of the old castle of Dalquharran, surviving as substantial standing structures and as buried archaeology, together with an area enclosing the outer defences and infrastructure". When the castle was completed in 1790, Thomas Kennedy moved out of the old castle which was abandoned and stands in ruins nearby, about 300 metres (980 ft) southeast, closer to the river. A large oval dining room occupies the east wing on the ground floor. A round bastion turret in the south front contains a drawing room on the ground floor, with library above, with views over Girvan Water. The interior was decorated in a classical style. The house has four floors, with bedchambers in the two floors. ![]() ![]() The castle was arranged symmetrically around a central entrance hall, with top-lit central spiral staircase similar to Culzean Castle, which Adam designed for David Kennedy from around 1776. Thomas Kennedy of Dunure was the husband of Robert Adam's sister, and Adam designed a new castle for him as a country mansion, during around 1785 to 1790. Kennedy of Kirkhill also bought Dunure Castle and its estate. Over the years, the old castle has also been known as Dalqhrin, Dahuharra Castle, Old Place of Dalwharn, Dolquharran. The estate including the old castle were bought in the late 17th century by Sir Thomas Kennedy of Kirkhill, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and occupied by his son Thomas Kennedy of Dunure. The new castle is also now a ruin since the roof was removed to avoid local taxation in 1967. One recent report states, "This property should not be confused with the ruined Old Dalquharran Castle which stands nearby". ![]() The south façade of the new castle overlooks the north bank of the Water of Girvan. The estate includes two "castles", the old one abandoned around 1800 and the new one, actually a mansion, which was habitable until the 1960s. The property lies near the village of Dailly, a few miles inland from the Firth of Clyde between Girvan and Turnberry on the western coast of Scotland, about 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Ayr. ![]()
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