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Interesting news · Tuesday 28 July
Brodick Castle's Bavarian summerhouse reopens on Arran
Isle of Arran · from ardrossanherald.com
Photograph · ardrossanherald.com
The National Trust for Scotland has finished conservation work on the Bavarian summerhouse at Brodick Castle, and it is open to visitors again this season. It was built in the mid-19th century as a wedding gift for Princess Marie of Baden, who had married William, the 11th Duke of Hamilton.
Four were put up on the estate. This is the only one left. Set into the sandstone rockface above Brodick Bay, it is decorated with rhododendron stems, and the recent work covered that stemwork, new heritage glass in the windows, fresh latches and repairs to the facetted slate roof. Historic Environment Scotland's Partnership Fund paid for it.
Still to come is the interior ceiling, patterned with pinecones by Bavarian craftsmen. Marie hosted her cousin Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte here more than once.
A seasonal seafood takeaway and deli on the shore road in Corrie, run since 2018 by Gordon and Kirsty, cooking creel-caught fish and shellfish from Lamlash Bay.
The domed brick drum on the north bank of the Clyde, opposite the Radisson RED at the SEC campus, is to open again in May 2027 as The Rotunda and Roundhouse.
