Ascog House, Isle of Bute

Name: Ascog House
Address: Isle of Bute, United Kingdom

#12 among attractions in Isle of Bute

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Ascog House is a large 17th-century mansion house at Ascog on the Isle of Bute, southwest Scotland. The house is in the care of the Landmark Trust, and is protected as a category B listed building. Balmory Hall lies just to the west of the house. ()

Coordinates: 55°49'24"N, 5°1'39"W

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Isle of Bute United Kingdom

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

Nearby attractions include: Mount Stuart House, Rothesay Castle, Skelmorlie Castle, Cathedral of The Isles.

2.2 miS
Forts and castles, Museum, History museum
Mount Stuart House, Rothesay
57 min walk • Mount Stuart House, on the east coast of the Isle of Bute, Scotland, is a country house built in the Gothic Revival style and the ancestral home of the Marquesses of Bute. It was designed by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson for the 3rd Marquess in the late 1870s, replacing an earlier house by Alexander McGill, which burnt down in 1877.
1.4 miNW
13th-century circular castle ruin
Rothesay Castle, Rothesay
36 min walk • Rothesay Castle is a ruined castle in Rothesay, the principal town on the Isle of Bute, in western Scotland. Located at NS086646, the castle has been described as "one of the most remarkable in Scotland", for its long history dating back to the beginning of the 13th century, and its unusual circular plan.
5.9 miE
Forts and castles, Reportedly haunted
Skelmorlie Castle
150 min walk • Skelmorlie Castle stands on the eastern shore of the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, at the north-western corner of the county of Ayrshire. The structure dates from 1502, and was formerly the seat and stronghold of the Montgomery Clan. The modern village of Skelmorlie lies to the north of the castle.
6.2 miSE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Cathedral of The Isles, Millport
157 min walk • The Cathedral of The Isles and Collegiate Church of the Holy Spirit is a Category A listed cathedral of the Scottish Episcopal Church in the town of Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae.
1.4 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Kirk Dam, Isle of Bute
36 min walk • Kirk Dam is an impounding dam, located 1.5 kilometres south of Rothesay, and is separated by a causeway from the much larger Loch Fad to the south-west.
1.4 miNW
55°50'9"N • 5°3'17"W
Bute Museum, Rothesay
35 min walk • Specialty museum, Museum
5.6 miSW
Island
Inchmarnock
144 min walk • Inchmarnock is an island at the northern end of the Sound of Bute in the Firth of Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland. The island is privately owned.
2.1 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Loch Fad, Isle of Bute
55 min walk • Loch Fad is a freshwater loch on the Isle of Bute in Scotland. Its name means "long loch" in Scottish Gaelic. It lies on the Highland Boundary Fault. Its surface area is 71 hectares, fairly large for a freshwater loch on an island in Scotland. It is the site of one of the largest rainbow trout cage farms in the UK.
3.8 miNW
Forts and castles
Kames Castle, Port Bannatyne
97 min walk • Kames Castle is a 16th-century tower house located on the shore of Kames Bay near Port Bannatyne, on the Isle of Bute, Scotland. The castle, which is set in 20 acres of planted grounds, includes a 2-acre 18th-century walled garden. It is extended through the addition of a range of stone cottages.
5.5 miE
Forts and castles
Knock Castle
140 min walk • Knock Castle is a private residence on the outskirts of Largs, on the west coast of Scotland. It was built by the boat-building Steele family in 1851, with a further wing added in the early twentieth century.
2.3 miW
Hiking, Hiking trail
West Island Way, Isle of Bute
59 min walk • The West Island Way is a waymarked long distance footpath on the Isle of Bute. The route opened in September 2000 as part of Bute's millennium celebrations, and was the first waymarked long distance route on a Scottish island. As of 2018 it was estimated that between six and...