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Ballikinrain Castle

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Photos from a cycle ride

to the 19th-century Ballikinrain Castle

 beneath the Campsie Fells near Killearn.

Ben Lomond on route to Ballikinrain Castle

Ben Lomond

on route to Ballikinrain Castle




Gatehouse to Ballikinrain Castle

Gatehouse to Ballikinrain Castle




Ballikinrain Castle

Ballikinrain Castle

The castle was built in 1868
 in Scottish Baronial style.
It is a category "B" listed building.

Formerly held the Ballikinrain independent, residential school.



Ballikinrain Castle

Ballikinrain Castle



Giant Redwoods at Ballikinrain Castle

Giant Redwoods

 at Ballikinrain Castle





Ballikinrain Castle

Ballikinrain Castle.





Painting of Ballikinrain Castle

Painting of Ballikinrain Castle.





Trees lining drive to Ballikinrain Castle

Trees lining driveway

 to Ballikinrain Castle
.






Campsie Fells above Ballikinrain Castle

Campsie Fells

above Ballikinrain Castle





The Endrick Water

Stronend

in the Fintry Hills





Boquhan House

Boquhan House

Boquhan House set in unspoilt countryside
between the villages of Balfron and Killearn

 Also known as Boquhan Old House,
the Category B listed building dates from 1784.

The 1897 publication
 Strathendrick and its inhabitants from early times”,
 by John Guthrie Smith,

reveals that the lands known as Meikle Boquhan
had been in the ownership of the Buchanans of Boquhan
since at least the early 17th century.

The present house would have been built for Thomas Buchanan,
 seventh of Boquhan, who succeeded his father Hugh in 1761.

A writer in Glasgow, and Procurator-Fiscal
to the Commissary of Hamilton and Campsie,

 he died unmarried in 1803 and left a will
which made his third sister, Elizabeth, his heir,

 as “he favoured her,
and she had kept his house for many years.


The house may have been the work of the architect David Henderson,
whose son John designed the Assembly Rooms on Edinburgh’s George Street.
 It was extended around 1900 with the addition of the offset east wing.

It is described in The Buildings of Scotland: Stirling and Central Scotland
 by John Gifford and Frank Arniel Walker

 as “archetypal” of the smaller country house
of the later 18th century “simple five-bay, two storeyed houses,

 most skew gabled with a pedimented façade
and a central doorway leading directly to a stair at the rear.”

Lacking only a roofline pediment,
Boquhan House conforms almost exactly to this description.

 The sundial at the front of Boquhan House
 is a registered monument.






Entrance Gates to Boquhan House

Entrance Gates to Boquhan House





Map of Ballikinrain Castle

Map of Ballikinrain Castle






Map of Killearn Area

Map of Killearn Area



Map of Killearn Area

Map of Killearn Area






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