Kirroughtree House

Kirroughtree House is the heritage-listed mansion house (Category B listing.) of the Kirroughtree estate. It occupies a prominent position 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of the town of Newton Stewart in the Galloway region of southwest Scotland. The main access is from the A712 close to its junction with the A75. Kirroughtree House was the family seat of the Heron family from the 14th or the 15th century until the 1880s. The mansion house is now a luxury hotel. While remnants of an older house have been found in a blocked-off cellar, the current house dates to 1719 with extensions to the northeast added in the 19th and early 20th century. The house has connections with both James Boswell and Robert Burns, each of whom stayed at Kirroughtree House as guests in the later 18th century.

During the heritorship of the Herons, the estate included Creebridge House and the Newton Stewart Golf Course to the west, and extended beyond Palnure. To the east, where the Forestry Commission's Kirroughtree Visitor Centre now stands, it included the lead mines of Blackcraig, which contributed to the estate's prosperity after their chance discovery during the construction of a military road in 1763. Kirroughtree House has retained 8 acres (3.2ha) of gardens incorporating a variety of well-grown trees that include North American species imported in the 18th century. The area behind the mansion house, where the ice house, the stables and the walled garden used to be located, has over time been turned into a secluded area of privately-owned country cottages. The ice house is to be found incorporated into the garden wall of Ice House Cottage, and part of the wall to the original walled garden is still extant, while the dovecote, which was constructed around the same time as the main house, can be found on the golf course beyond.

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