Terregles House

In 1776, Winifred Maxwell, the granddaughter of the 5th Earl of Nithsdale, served as heir general to her father, inheriting the Terregles property.

Sir Robert Smirke was employed to extend the house and build a new stable block in 1831.

In 1848 Winifred's grandson, William Constable-Maxwell, obtained an Act of Parliament restoring him as the descendant of William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, and ten years later the House of Lords declared him the 10th Lord Herries of Terregles.

[2] The choir of Terregles Church was built by the Catholic Maxwell family as their burial crypt in 1585, post Reformation.

At the head of the stairway leading down to the crypt stands the sculpture "The Angel of the Resurrection" by John Birnie Philip (1824 - 1875).