Culzean Castle, Swan Cottage. View of cottage from North-West.

Description Culzean Castle, Swan Cottage. View of cottage from North-West.

Date 4/1959

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number AY 1397/29

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 763899

Scope and Content Swan Cottage, Culzean Castle, South Ayrshire Swan cottage dates from c.1820, and was probably built to designs by architect Robert Lugar (c.1773-1855). It comprises a two-storeyed octagonal tower with projecting porch and flanking one-storeyed wings fitted with sheltered recesses for watching swans on the pond. Verandas are fitted each side of the door, and the glazing bars on the windows form Gothic arches. Swan cottage is a good example of the many ornamental estate buildings built in the 18th and 19th centuries. These were used as housing for workers or as pavilions for guests to take tea or shelter in when on a tour of the grounds. To the rear of the cottage is an aviary, with an arcade of Gothic arches once used to contain a colony of exotic birds. Culzean Castle was remodelled by architect Robert Adam (1728-92) from 1777 onwards for David, 10th Earl of Cassilis. He extended the late 16th century L-plan tower-house in the Castellated style and added a drum tower (built 1785). Adam also designed the Neo-Classical interior, oval staircase (built 1787), and adjacent home farm. The castle was extended to the west in 1875 by architects Wardrop & Reid, and restored in the 20th century for the National Trust for Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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