Lanrick Castle was a late 18th-century country house near Doune

Doune

Doune is a burgh in the district of Stirling, Scotland, on the River Teith. Doune's postal address places the town in Perthshire, although geographically it lies within the District of Stirling, and administratively Doune is under the control of Stirling Council...

 in central Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

. It was demolished in 2002 despite being protected as a category B listed building. It was located on the south bank of the River Teith

River Teith

The River Teith in Scotland flows from the north-west into the River Forth near Drip north-west of Stirling.- Etymology :The name comes from the Scottish Gaelic Uisge Theavich, which translates into English as the "pleasant river".- Course :...

, in Stirling council area

Stirling (council area)

Stirling is one of the 32 unitary local government council areas of Scotland, and has a population of about 87,000 . It was created under the Local Government etc Act 1994 with the boundaries of the Stirling district of the former Central local government region, and it covers most of the former...

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History

Lanrick was the property of the Haldane family

Clan Haldane

Clan Haldane is a Lowland Scottish clan.- Origins of the Haldanes of Gleneagles :[The following text is copied verbatim from The Haldanes of Gleneagles, General Sir J. Aylmer L. Haldane, 1929, William Blackwood & Sons, Ltd., London and Edinburgh, which book is in the Public Domain since 2004...

. In the 19th century it belonged to the MacGregors, and was owned in the later 19th century by Robert Jardine of Castlemilk

Sir Robert Jardine, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Jardine, 1st Baronet was a Scottish businessman and Liberal politicianJardine was born at Edinburgh the son of David Jardine of Muir House, Lockerbie, Dumfries and his wife Rachel Johnstone...

, MP. The house was probably built around 1790, and Gothic additions in the style of James Gillespie Graham

James Gillespie Graham

James Gillespie Graham was a Scottish architect, born in Dunblane. He is most notable for his work in the Scottish baronial style, as at Ayton Castle, and he worked in the Gothic Revival style, in which he was heavily influenced by the work of Augustus Pugin...

 were made in around 1815. Further alterations were made in the later 19th century, and parts of the building underwent internal remodelling in 1900.

Alistair Dickson inherited Lanrick in 1984. In 1995 the castle was gutted by fire and lost its roof. On 16 February 2002 the remaining structure was demolished. Dickson was prosecuted for demolishing a listed structure without the necessary consent, and was fined £1,000 in January 2003. The sheriff also criticised Stirling Council for failing to take action to secure the building.

Other structures

Remaining buildings on the estate include the Lanrick MacGregor Monument, erected by Sir Evan John Murray MacGregor in the earlier 19th century. This takes the form of a stone tree trunk, topped by a rotunda of Roman Doric

Doric order

The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:...

columns, and is a category A listed building. Lodges, a stable block, and a riverside grotto also survive on the estate.

External links

• Lanrick Castle and the MacGregor Monument, Clan Gregor web site