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Finlaystone Country Estate incorporates a 15th century castle. The castle was originally the property of the Cunningham Earls of Glencairn.
It underwent extensions and remodelling between 1760 and 1903, and was extended by the noted architect Sir John James Burnet in 1900.
The most striking feature of Burnet's interiors is the pair of pink marble pillars with a mythological beast at their base. Burnet favoured this way of ending a stair rail.
Finlaystone Country Estate
Langbank
Renfrewshire PA14 6TJ
Telephone - 01475-540505
E mail -
Opening Times- Estate
The country estate is open all year round from 10am until 5pm. The Eye Opener Centre is open from April until September 11am to 5pm.
Prices
Adult £3.50 Children £2.50 Concession £ 2.50
Finlaystone House is not a tourist attraction but is included in this listing due to its presence on the Estate.
Photographs Courtesy of Finlaystone Country Estate ©
Finlaystone Country Estate
Finlaystone house has a long and varied past. Six families have lived there throughout it's eight hundred year history. The house hosted the famous Scottish poet, Robert Burns in 1768. The 5th Earl invited John Knox to preach there in 1556.
There are around one hundred and forty acres of woodland at Finlaystone Estate. Some of the trees are estimated to be at least three to four hundred years old. The woodland plays host to roe deer, foxes, squirrels, stoats, a large colony of bats and some otters have been sighted.
You may stroll through the gardens on the estate. You can enjoy the sweeping lawns and sculptured hedges, and don't miss the smelly garden or the intricate Celtic paving. The main design for the gardens was laid out in 1900.
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The Estate also hosts the second largest heronry in the south west of Scotland with an annual nesting population of around twenty-five to thirty pairs. A survey carried out in 1998 revealed the Estate to host over fifty species of breeding birds.
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