Dumfries House, Cumnock

Name: Dumfries House
Address: Dumfries House Dumfries House Estate, Cumnock, KA18 2NJ, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1290 425959

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Dumfries House is a Palladian country house in Ayrshire, Scotland. It is located within a large estate, around two miles west of Cumnock. Noted for being one of the few such houses with much of its original 18th-century furniture still present, including specially commissioned Thomas Chippendale pieces, the house and estate is now owned by The Prince's Foundation, a charity which maintains it as a visitor attraction and hospitality and wedding venue. Both the house and the gardens are listed as significant aspects of Scottish heritage. ()

Coordinates: 55°27'20"N, 4°18'29"W

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Dumfries House Dumfries House EstateCumnock KA18 2NJ United Kingdom

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Dumfries House – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Terringzean Castle, Mauchline Castle, Sorn Castle, Woodroad Viaduct.

1.7 miE
Forts and castles
Terringzean Castle, Cumnock
43 min walk • Terringzean Castle, also Taringzean, pronounced 'Tringan', is a Category B listed castle ruin lying above the River Lugar and the Terringzean Holm in the policies of Dumfries House, Parish of Cumnock, Scotland.
5 miNW
Forts and castles
Mauchline Castle, Mauchline
128 min walk • Mauchline Castle, also known as Abbot Hunter's Tower, is a rectangular tower house dating from the fifteenth century, in Mauchline, East Ayrshire, Scotland.
4.1 miN
Forts and castles
Sorn Castle
104 min walk • Sorn Castle is located by the River Ayr just outside the village of Sorn in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The castle comprises a medieval tower house, which was extended over the years, and remodelled in the Scots Baronial style by David Bryce in the 1860s.
2 miE
Bridge
Woodroad Viaduct, Cumnock
52 min walk • The Woodroad Viaduct, also known as Bank Viaduct or Templand Viaduct, is a viaduct carrying the Glasgow South Western Line over the Lugar Water at Cumnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
4.2 miNE
Archaeological site
Medieval turf building in Cronberry
108 min walk • Excavations in Cronberry, East Ayrshire, Scotland by Headland Archaeology revealed a medieval turf building and a nearby enclosure of unknown date. The turf structure was sub-rectangular and contained a hearth surrounded by some paving. Pottery dating to no later than the 16th century was recovered from the interior.
3.2 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Wallace's Cave
83 min walk • Wallace's Cave in the Lugar Gorge at Auchinleck in the Parish of Auchinleck is an 18th-century grotto contemporary with Dr Johnson's Summerhouse, also located on the Auchinleck Estate.
3.9 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Peden's Cave
99 min walk • Peden's Cave is at least partly artificial and is set into a craggy outcrop of red sandstone rocks overlooking the River Lugar just below the farm of Auchinbay in East Ayrshire, Scotland, close to the town of Ochiltree.
2.1 miE
Bridge
Glaisnock Viaduct, Cumnock
53 min walk • The Glaisnock Viaduct or Caponacre Viaduct is a viaduct over the Glaisnock Water, on the former Glasgow and South Western Railway. It is located in Cumnock, East Ayrshire.
5.2 miW
Forts and castles
Trabboch Castle
132 min walk • Trabboch Castle is a ruined L-plan tower house in the old Barony of Trabboch, Parish of Stair, East Ayrshire, Scotland.
3.7 miNW
Memorial
Ballochmyle cup and ring marks
94 min walk • The Ballochmyle cup and ring marks were first recorded at Ballochmyle, Mauchline, East Ayrshire, Scotland in 1986, very unusually carved on a vertical red sandstone cliff face, forming one of the most extensive areas of such carvings as yet found in Britain. They have been designated a scheduled monument.
6.5 miSE
Town
New Cumnock
165 min walk • New Cumnock is a town in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It expanded during the coal-mining era from the late 18th century, and mining remained its key industry until its pits were shut in the 1960s.