Dumfries House
Dumfries House is a Palladian country house in Ayrshire, Scotland. It is located within a large estate, around two miles west of Cumnock. Noted for being one of the few such houses with much of its original 18th-century furniture still present, including…| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Julien.scavini, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Julien.scavini, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Auchinleck railway station and Terringzean Castle.
Auchinleck railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gordon Dowie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Auchinleck railway station is a railway station in the village of Auchinleck, East Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line. It is also the nearest station to the larger town of Cumnock.
Terringzean Castle
Ruins
Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.
Terringzean Castle, also Taringzean, pronounced 'Tringan', is a Category B listed castle ruin lying above the River Lugar and the Terringzean Holm in the policies of Dumfries House, Parish of Cumnock, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Auchinleck and Cumnock.
Auchinleck
Village
Photo: Brian D Osborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Auchinleck is a village 5 miles southeast of Mauchline, and 2 miles northwest of Cumnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Surrounding the village is Auchinleck Estate, centred on Auchinleck House, past home of the lawyer, diarist and biographer James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck.
Cumnock
Town
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cumnock is a town and former civil parish located in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The town sits at the confluence of the Glaisnock Water and the Lugar Water. Cumnock is situated 1½ miles southeast of Dumfries House.
Ochiltree
Village
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ochiltree is a conservation village in East Ayrshire, Scotland, near Auchinleck and Cumnock. It is one of the oldest villages in East Ayrshire, with archaeological remains indicating Stone Age and Bronze Age settlers. Ochiltree is situated 2½ miles west of Dumfries House.
Dumfries House
- Type: Estate
- Description: country house in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
- Categories: country house, historic house museum, and agriculture
- Location: East Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Japanese—“Dumfries House” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “敦弗里斯莊園”
- German: “Dumfries House”
- Greek: “Οίκος Ντάμφρις”
- Hindi: “डम्फ़्रीज़ हाउस”
- Japanese: “ダンフリーズ・ハウス”
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