View from south east Digital image of D 46985/cn

Description View from south east Digital image of D 46985/cn

Date 23/6/1999

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 765056

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 46985 CN

Scope and Content Drumlanrig Kennels, Drumlanrig Estate, Dumfries & Galloway, from the south-east This simple single-storeyed building, built of pink sandstone quarried on the estate, consists of four dog houses, each opening into a railed rectangular yard surrounded by a low wall with an access gate. The roof is slated, and has plain skews, the flat, sloping stones along the edge of the roof above the gables. Each house has two six-paned windows for light and ventilation, and a central door for access. The single octagonal flue may arise from an outhouse or 'boil-house' where meat, usually rabbits, was boiled and fed to the dogs. Fox hunting in Dumfries-shire dates back to the early part of the 19th century. Hunting, however, was not formally organised until the middle of the 19th century when, in 1848, some hounds were brought to Lockerbie, and a subscription pack formed with the Duke of Queensberry as Master and Joe Graham from Lockerbie as huntsman. Drumlanrig Kennels, built in the mid-19th century to house the Duke of Queensberry's hunting dogs, stand in an open setting within the Duke's extensive Drumlanrig estate. The estate, which derived some of its land from King Robert Bruce c.1300, includes the family seat, Drumlanrig Castle, one of the great Renaissance courtyard houses of Scottish domestic architecture, and provides employment for several hundred people. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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