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Keir House

Field	Value
image	Keir House - geograph.org.uk - 187323.jpg
caption	East front of Keir House
locmapin	Scotland Stirling
map_caption	Location in Stirling council area
coordinates
designation1	category a listed building
designation1_date	5 October 1971
designation1_number	3935
designation4	Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes
designation4_offname	Keir
designation4_date	1987
designation4_criteria	Work of Art, Historical,
Horticultural, Architectural

Horticultural, Architectural

Keir House is a large country house near Stirling in central Scotland. It is located in the parish of Lecropt, 2.5 km north-west of Bridge of Allan, in the former county of Perthshire. The estate was home to the Stirling family from the 15th to the 20th century. Keir House is protected as a category A listed building, and the grounds are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.

History

The Keir estate was acquired by the Stirling family in 1448, and a house was built on it in the 16th century. The Stirlings supported the Jacobites during the 18th-century rebellions, and the estate was forfeited. However, they continued to live at Keir, and built the present house in around 1760. Income from the family's estates in Jamaica funded agricultural improvements and landscaping of the grounds.

The gardens were created in the 19th century as a miniature version of the Great Garden of Alloa 20km to the south-east.

Additions were made to the house, including the south-west wing to designs by David Hamilton, completed in 1831. In 1847 Sir William Stirling Maxwell inherited the estate, and began a remodelling of the house and grounds. Architects Alfred Jenoure and William Stirling II worked on the house, while formal gardens were laid out by James Niven. A chapel was added in 1912, designed by Rowand Anderson and Paul, and with interior mosaic decoration by Boris Anrep. Sir William's grandson, Sir David Stirling, founder of the Special Air Service (SAS), was born at Keir in 1915.

In 1975 the house, together with 15000 acre, was sold by Bill Stirling of Keir for £2 million to Mahdi Al Tajir, a businessman from the United Arab Emirates.

The estate

The estate is entered from the north-east via the New Lodge. Built in 1820 to Greek Revival designs by David Hamilton, this was originally the South Lodge, but was moved to its present location in 1969 when the M9 motorway was built through the eastern edge of the grounds. The Home Farm was built in 1832 and designed by David Bryce, but was elaborated by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell around 1858. The large steading includes a clock tower and a dairy with pictorial tiles.

References

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Pierce, Andrew. (3 January 2007). "The Stirling profile". [[The Daily Telegraph.
"Keir House". Gazetteer for Scotland.
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