Kindrogan House

The Field studies centre was mothballed in 2019 but has reopened as The Chiron Hub, a therapeutic outreach service for children and young people and support for families.

The Balfours returned to Kindrogan after WWII and remained until 1960 when the estate was purchased by the Forestry Commission, and sold on to the current owners, the Scottish Field Studies Association in 1963[1] after a short spell as a country house hotel.

A plaque beside the path running from the house to the Enochdhu Lodge beside the River Ardle records that Queen Victoria once stopped here for tea on an excursion from Dunkeld to Spittal of Glenshee.

[3] The 1850s 6-inch (150 mm) Ordnance Survey map shows a bowling green to have been situated near the walled garden in the sunken area running down to the River Ardle and a summer houses lay on a path down from the family burial ground.

Significant repairs are underway to restore this walled garden back to its former condition and use by Somerville Enterprises CIC.The Barons Ruadh, later Reid, were the local lairds and chiefs of the Robertson Clan.

[6] The Giant's Grave and standing stone is at Enochdhu, supposedly the burial place of Prince Ard-fhuil (meaning of high or noble blood) who was killed hereabouts, with two of his men, whilst fighting the Danes in AD 903.

The family had built an underground kitchen in the area where they slaughtered and cooked stolen cattle, however the locals became suspicious and they were caught redhanded, banished and their home burnt down.