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Summerhouse, Buchanan Castle Estate

A Category C Listed Building in Forth and Endrick, Stirling

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0709 / 56°4'15"N

Longitude: -4.4802 / 4°28'48"W

OS Eastings: 245712

OS Northings: 689224

OS Grid: NS457892

Mapcode National: GBR 0Q.PFJ2

Mapcode Global: WH3N0.4NVV

Plus Code: 9C8Q3GC9+9W

Entry Name: Summerhouse, Buchanan Castle Estate

Listing Name: Buchanan Castle Estate, Summerhouse and 3 Bridges Along Cascade Walk

Listing Date: 4 May 2006

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 398491

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB50458

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200398491

Location: Buchanan

County: Stirling

Electoral Ward: Forth and Endrick

Parish: Buchanan

Traditional County: Stirlingshire

Tagged with: Bridge Footbridge Summer house

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Description

Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority

This summer house, and 3 associated footbridges, likely to have been built in the early 19th century for the Duke of Montrose, form a landscape feature known as the 'Cascade Walk' along a picturesque wooded section of the Doghouse Burn. They interesting examples of 19th century garden building architecture. The policies of Buchanan Castle are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland (Vol. 4, 291).

Summerhouse:

Positioned on the N bank of the burn, just below a small waterfall, the summer house is a small square-plan, single room building with a large round-arched opening to the gabled S elevation, allowing people to sit within and view the burn. The roof is barrel-vaulted within, but follows a slated pitched form (in bad condition) on the exterior. The summerhouse is built of random rubble; the S gable has an overhanging stone 'eaves' detail.

3 Bridges:

Located downstream at intervals along the burn between the summerhouse, and the Duchess Bridge (see separate listing), 3 small rustic hump-backed footbridges crossing the burn, each built of rubble with a single segmental span.

Statement of Interest

The burn used to be dammed upriver from the summerhouse, so that when the Duchess or Duke visited it, they could order the factor to release the dammed water to create a more spectacular cascade. Much of the dam structure remains.

An estate record dated 1817-18 (GD220/6/88) refers to a bridge to be built 'with rough stone like that in the Cascade Walk.

Buchanan Castle Estate was held the Buchanans from the 13th century until it was bought by the 3rd Marquis (later Duke) in 1682. In 1724 the earlier dwelling was demolished and a large new house constructed. Over the next 130 years, the house and its surrounding estate underwent several periods of alteration and development, culminating in the construction of Buchanan Castle in 1852.

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