Big House, Scotland July 2012

After a hefty amount of research I finally found out where this place was, still didn't expect to find it due to my broken sat nav and distinct lack of navigational skills but I surprised myself and we arrived 3 hours later, what a beautiful building it was!

In it's heyday:



I'm sure most of you will have read about it's history but just in case - All I can find online was that the big house was the replacement for an ancient castle. It was thought to have been used as a house/ school for evacuees during WW2. Since then I'm sure it has been used as a family home until around 1997 (we found loads of letters and such dated to around that point.

There is plenty of interesting artifacts lying around, clothes, books, hundreds of toys and not to mention the beautiful baby grand piano. It felt distinctly spooky creeping around with silence all around us, and I expected the floor to cave in at any moment.

Unfortunately I feel like I only skimmed the surface as we got caught halfway through the 1st floor by an rather displeased farmer type man. I'm sure he lived in a nearby house and sort of looked after the place.
He was determined to call the police but thankfully we managed to calm him down.. I felt rather shaken afterwards as it was my 2nd explore and 1st time getting caught. It happens to everyone though I guess! I would love to go back and finish what we started but i'm not sure I have the guts to bump into this gentleman a second time!

Anyhoo, here are my pics, apologies for the distinct lack and variety of them but I hope you enjoy what I did manage to capture





The unique oval entrance hall:







I already knew our escape route was blocked:


What a beautiful view it was, even on a classic Scottish summer's day


The piano. It pains me to see this go to waste. It's still in pretty immaculate condition it seems, it would be such a shame if it wasn't rescued by the owners


We just took pictures from the door of this room, there seemed to be a nest of chicks nearby, with swallows swooping at us and the floor didn't look too happy...












Some dark spiral stairs I was far too much of a wimp to attempt... anyone else been down them?

What a cracking looking place and well captured!

Cheers for posting these up!

Well said Urbex-SW, I often cannot believe how a house as beautiful as this can literally be walked away from. Those gloomy stairs look fantastic from an exploration perspec. Christ knows what one would expect to find down there! I'll let my imagination run wild!

Cheers for posting!

The big house finds are just amazing.

Stunning!!! Love it, and you have captured it brilliantly. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent report that and your pictures really show it off.

Shame about the angry farmer I always thought this place would be a breeze and plan on going here sometime too, had a farmer and some coppers find us on Saturday in a stellar place we were gutted.

This house always amazes me with its contents!strange,great photos.

Did you manage to get any information out of the farmer?
Nice set of photos. I think the spiral staircase goes down into the basement, which is very dingy and empty.

Great stuff. That place remains a favourite; views to die for and all the personal belongings, you can so easily imagine living there. Uber shame it's slowly rotting.

Another phrase thrown around on here is the following "Stunning/amazing/wonderful images" (even if they're utter rubbish). Well these really are stunning images. Love the 'feel' of them, moody, dark and perfectly representable (haz I just made a word up?) of the house.

Love it

Thanks everyone! I'm glad you like my photo's, it seems like a breeze to make such a beautiful building like this look great though.
It's such a mysterious place, I can't stop wondering why it was left in such a state!
Unfortunately the farmer was a very displeased man, I didn't think it would be a clever idea to quiz him about the building as he was super suspicious about us as it was haha

Forgot to mention this little house that was in the grounds, didn't get a chance to go inside though.

That's beautiful. I love the view over the lake.

You have to wonder what happened to make someone up and leave that view. :-/

Beautiful place & fantastic photos, thanks for sharing

What a lovely place sham its going to ruin,

Great stuff! What a shame you got rumbled...

Great pictures, what a place . Thanks for sharing .

Some great photos. Would love to see down the spiral staircase. If I could find out where it was I'd be there quick sharp, however in the meantime GET DOWN THE STAIRS!

Did you take any more pictures?