Kelburn Castle
Kelburn Castle is a manor house near the Scottish town of Fairlie in the Unitary Authority North Ayrshire. In 1971 the building was added to the Scottish lists of monuments in the highest category A monument. The manor house is isolated between Fairlie and Largs near the southern shore of the Firth of Clyde.
History
Since the 12th century, The lands owned by the Boyle family, originally de Boyville. This comes from Normandy and settled after the Battle of Hastings to Britain over. In 1140 a branch of the family took the lands in Ayrshire owned and built around 1200, a fortified structure at this location. 1581 left them there a Tower House with Z- shaped ground plan build, probably miteinbezog parts of the original fort. This has been expanded in several phases 1692-1720. The last stage was completed in 1880, the mansion was built in its present form. Since 1666 the title of Earl of Glasgow is inherited within the family and Kelburn Castle is the headquarters of the owner.
After Historic Scotland recalled the early necessity of the exterior plaster renovation, let Patrick Robin Archibald Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow make for £ 20,000 parts of the facades of four Brazilian graffiti artists. This was intended as a temporary installation due to the renewal of the Harl plaster and allowed by the conservation authorities. Since 2011 the owner, however, the work of art has expressed on several occasions not to want to remove.
Other buildings
In the extensive gardens of the property is a monument in memory of John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow. It was designed in 1775 by the Scottish architect Robert Adam and is run as a single monument in the Scottish monument lists in category A. The original designs are archived in the Sir John Soane 's Museum in London. The trapezoidal structure is worked with a shrine with Blend pillars and triangular pediment and shows a grieving female figure.
In the gardens further two sundials are set up, one of which is classified as a Category A listed. The 1707 made structure consists of a shaft with a square base, which rises from a multi-stage podium. On this sits on a polygon that eventually tapers to an obelisk and culminating in a wrought iron weather vane. The gnomons are made of bronze.