Dalnair Castle
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| Location | Stirling |
| Town or city | Croftamie |
| Country | Scotland |
| Completed | 1884 |
Dalnair Castle, also known as Dalnair House, is a Scottish baronial castle dating from around 1884. It is located outside the village of Croftamie in Stirling, Scotland, on the edge of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park.
History
[edit]1884–1940s
[edit]Dalnair Castle was built for a Glaswegian merchant named Thomas Brown around 1884 on the site of the former much smaller "Endrickbank House".[1]
The property survived a major fire that engulfed it in 1917. At the time of the fire the building belonged to Henry Christie, a calico printer, who owned it until the 1940s.[2]
1940s–2000s
[edit]The castle then passed into the hands of the Glasgow Western Hospital Board and it was used as a nurses' home until Killearn Hospital closed in 1972[3] For much of the 1970s it was a training and conference centre for British Steel. On 2000, it became a nursing home before becoming vacant and at risk of becoming a ruin.[4]
2016–present
[edit]In 2016 the FM Group, a Scottish property developer, bought the property and is refurbishing the baronial castle into luxury apartments.[5] The plans also include construction work in the estate surrounding the castle, where a number of family homes have and continue to be built.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Your chance to live like a king as flats in Scottish baronial mansion hit market". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ Stuff, Good. "Dalnair House, Drymen, Stirling". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ "Dalnair House, Croftamie | Buildings at Risk Register". www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk. Archived from the original on 26 October 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ "Dalnair House | Canmore". canmore.org.uk. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ Now, Scottish Construction. "Edinburgh property developer to convert castle into luxury living space". Scottish Construction Now. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ Now, Scottish Construction. "£10m invested in Dalnair Castle and Ury Mansion House". Scottish Construction Now. Retrieved 16 September 2019.