Mount Stuart House

Mount Stuart House is a mansion on the Scottish island of Bute. It is located in a forest near the east coast about five kilometers southeast of Rothesay, the main town of the island. In 1971 the Mount Stuart House was inducted into the Scottish lists of monuments in the highest category A.

History

Today's Mount Stuart House replaces a previous building dating back to 1718. This was designed by the Scottish architect Alexander McGill and had a length of about 70 m and a width of about 20 m. Both in the north and in the south wing of the main building went off in a westerly direction. With the exception of the Catholic chapel in the north wing in 1877 a fire destroyed most of the parts of this house.

Today's Mount Stuart House was designed by Robert Rowand Anderson and built in 1878 for the 3rd Marquess of Bute. A held in the Georgian style undamaged part of the building of the old building has been integrated here into the present, neo-Gothic building. The building cost about £ 300,000. The adjoining the north and also listed Mausoleum of Mount Stuart House was built around the year 1900. 1995 Mount Stuart House was finally made ​​available for tours to the public.

Although Mount Stuart House is architecturally inspired by medieval motifs, it was equipped with the latest technology to build times. It was the first residential building of Scotland had an electric lighting system. Since 1878, it was connected with a separate cable to the telephone network, currently under construction. It was equipped from the beginning with an innovative central heating for this time, which connected the individual rooms to a pipe system. In addition, Mount Stuart House had the first heated swimming pool inside a house. For the supply of building a water plant was built in three kilometers specially for this purpose.