Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Gatehouse of Fleet
KIRKCUDBRIGHT
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ACCOMMODATION
Baytree House
The Greengate
Silvercraigs campsite
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Greyfriars
Episcopal
Church
Broughton
House
MacLellan's
Castle
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Town
Hall
Library
Police
Station
Stewartry
Museum
Tolbooth
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CAFÉS, RESTAURANTS & PUBS
Castle Restaurant
Mulberries Cofee Shop
and Chocolatiers
The Selkirk Arms
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harbourside. Part fortified keep and part spacious mansion, the castle was built in the
1570s for the Provost of Kirkcudbright, Sir homas MacLellan of Bombie, when a
degree of law and order permitted the aristocracy to relax its defensive preoccupations
and satisfy its desire for comfort. As a consequence, chimneys replaced battlements
and windows begin at the ground floor. Nevertheless, the walls remain impressively
thick and there are a handful of wide-mouthed gun loops. he interior is well
preserved, from the kitchen and vaulted storerooms in the basement, to the warren of
well-appointed domestic apartments above. MacLellan's son, Robert, amassed so many
debts that on his death in 1639, the house had to be sold off, and from then on it was
more or less abandoned.
Broughton House
12 High St • April-Oct noon-5pm; also Feb & March garden only Mon-Fri 11am-4pm • £6.50; NTS •
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01557 330437
Near the castle, on the L-shaped High Street, is
Broughton House
, a smart Georgian
townhouse set back from, and elevated above, the surrounding terraces. his is the
former home of the artist
Edward Hornel
(1863-1933), an important member of the
late nineteenth-century Scottish art scene, who spent his childhood a few doors down
the street, and returned in 1900 to establish an artists' colony in Kirkcudbright with
some of the “Glasgow Boys” (see p.196). Hornel bought Broughton House in 1901
and added a studio and a glass-roofed, mahogany-panelled gallery at the back of the
house. he gallery, now filled with the mannered and rather formulaic paintings of girls
