Kames Castle

In the later 18th and early 19th century he laid out the walled garden and constructed a mansion adjoining the tower house.

Thomas Carlyle in his biography of Sterling refers to the castle as "a kind of dilapidated baronial residence to which a small farm was then attached".

[2] Lord Bannatyne sold the estate around 1810, to James Hamilton WS (1775–1849),[3] preferring his social life in Edinburgh.

Around 1900 the mansion was demolished and replaced with a series of cottages around a courtyard, with the intention of creating a hunting lodge.

[1] In the mid to late 20th century, Kames was used as a children's holiday home, run by the Scottish Council for Spastics.