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Glen Stuart, Glenstuart, Glen Stewart or Glenstewart
Research notes:
• Much altered house, 19th century in present form, but said to
incorporate earlier house. 2 storeys; rubble-built with ashlar dressings
and painted margins. Asymmetrical long W and
E elevations, the former with main entrance, 2 piend-roofed asymmetrical
wings form court. Corniced stacks; slate roofs.
Heavily overgrown driveway bridge to NW of house difficult to date, but
may be pre-19th century.
'A small white house buried at the end of a narrow glen and overshadowed
by trees' Neville Waterfield
• Glen Stewart, one of the houses on Lord Queensberry's Scottish
estate of Kinmount, previously the home of Lady Florence's mother, the
Dowager Marchioness.
• Lady Florence Dixie (1855-1905), travel writer, war
correspondent, and feminist, a daughter of the 8th Marquess of
Queensberry, was born and lived much of her later life on the Kinmount
estate at Glenstewart House after her husband lost his family seat
through gambling. She had married Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill
Dixie, 11th Baronet (1851-1924), known as "Sir A.B.C.D."
• Glen Stewart House, This name applies to a Glen the surface of
Which is covered with mixed moor near its centre stands a house called
Glenstewart it is the property of Lord Mansfield
• On Glen Burn about 12 1/2 miles from Dumfries Burgh A large
house three story high of Modern construction being the Seat of the
Marquis of Queensberry it is situated in a deep glen and surrounded by
an enclosed Wood from whence it derives its name there are extensive
offices and Kennel connected with it about a quarter of a mile to the
south east of Glenstewart being the property of his Grace. |
