Brunton House

Building summary

Name	Brunton House
Address	Brunton Street
Postcode	KY15 7BQ
Other names	Marchioness Dowager of Bute’s private school ^[1]
Date	17th century
Architect	Robert Weir Schultz
OS grid ref	NO 25239 7311
Latitude & longitude	56°15′09″N 3°12′29″W
Listing	Category A
Listing ref	LB31328

Brunton House, Brunton Street is a private house, once the residence of the hereditary falconers to the Kings of Scotland.

It is probably older than the date of 1712 on the armorial panel.

It was restored in 1894–95 for the third Marquess of Bute by Robert Weir Schultz as a school for the Roman Catholic children of the village, and refurbished in 1910 for use for use by Lord Ninian's chaplain,^[1]. In 1953 Major Michael Crichton Stuart presented it to the National Trust for Scotland.

It was restored in 1970 by the NTS under the Little Houses Improvement Scheme.^[2]

HES listing details
Address/Site Name Brunton House, Brunton Street (including garden walls)
Description Dated 1712 at sculptured armorial panel, 3-storey 3-window, coursed rubble, moulded doorpiece; crowstepped and pantiled with slate skirting. Crowstepped stair tower at back.^[3]
Statement of special interest Cobbled pavement

Former residents

1906: George Lumsden^[1]
Around 1906: Mrs O'Connor (teacher / manageress)^[1]
1911: Henley Woods (Roman Catholic Priest), aged 54, and his sister Cecilia Woods aged 32, both from Edinburgh and a servant (housekeeper), Lily Preston aged 28, from Ireland.^[4]

Gifford, Fife, page 221.
Pride, Kingdom of Fife, page 87. "A three-storey masterpiece in coursed rubble, pantiles and crowsteps."
Canmore
Wikipedia

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Playfair and Burgess
↑ Diane Watters and Miles Glendenning, Little Houses; The National Trust for Scotland's Improvement Scheme for Small Historic Homes (RCAHMS and NTS, 2006, page 105).
↑ Brunton House, Brunton Street (including garden walls), Historic Environment Scotland.
↑ 1911 census

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