Culzean Castle, Gas House. View of gas house cottage from North-West. Digital image of B 56329.

Description Culzean Castle, Gas House. View of gas house cottage from North-West. Digital image of B 56329.

Date 7/8/1991

Catalogue Number SC 763950

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 56329

Scope and Content Gas Manager's House, Culzean Castle, South Ayrshire This shows the shell of a house designed for the gas manager of the adjacent gas house and his family. The house is built of stone, and has decorative corner turrets. When inhabited it contained two rooms on the ground floor and two in the attic. This house and part of the gasworks were restored in the 1990s to house an exhibition on the history of gas power. The gas manager was in charge of the running of Culzean Castle's gasworks on the beach, and was on call 24 hours a day to monitor the gas supply to the estate. In 1881 the manager was a Mr Matthew Walker, then aged 76. He had held the position for 40 years and shared the gas manager's house with his wife Anne, and their two daughters. 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 in 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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